CMNS 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Walter Lippmann
16 Dec 2015
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Spectacle can make up for the alienation, from including the isolation group. Hollerand ethics of communication, being together with people. Think about the difference between appearance and reality. Hooks simplified language advocates for caring and simplified langage. Elements of carnival literally inverting the dominant categories. Based on the scientific facts and ideas not superstition. In order to arrive at the real world we had to be able to act rationally, we had to be able to reason. Enlightenment people said when we are governing, the studying of human nature through rationality we could come to a government that is just. Citizens, every day people had the capacity to act rationally, that they could govern themselves. Choose a leader policy one government over another. Reasonable citizens can understand reality through what it is rather than the imagined church doctrine. It was a break from a reactionary past that has been cloaked. Progressives throughout history has took on enlightenment ideals.
