Status Updates From Public Opinion

No common idea emerges from private notions
Organization is needed
"Pantomime in reverie" - reaction to impressions of invisible world is no practical issue

People who say Yes may have different, contradictory reasons for doing so.

Proposals to curb steering committee merely postpone or obscure the need for a machine. Creating an issue voters can say Yes or No to.

"The Many can elect after the Few have nominated."

Symbols are useful and powerful. Symbols are employed in speeches and publications.
The words must be spoken by the right people at the right time.

"Phrases equally noble, true, and almost reversible"

How symbols take root in minds: Beloved/authoritative persons. Positions of authority are contextual

Distinction b/w members and rank & file: Not tied by common conviction
Distance enhances view of mass cooperation

Reception of the Fourteen Points, description of use of hierarchy of symbols.
Rights of Humanity -> Rights of France, Britain, Italy

How Hamilton trading the site of the capitol for two necessary votes.
"In the crystallizing of a common will, there is always an Alexander Hamilton at work"

THE TRANSFER OF INTEREST

How is Public Opinion crystalized
People do different things for different reasons
Vote for one party for different, sometimes opposing reasons
Concept of "oversoul"

Hughes' first speech after accepting Republican nomination
Method of securing homogeneous vote from heterogeneous opinion
Agreement -> detail
Disagreement -> vague
Lip service to all sides

Idea and response both second hand

Self interest: ideas of self and interest are not instinctive but acquired
Economic position may influence opinion, but exactly how you can't tell, as there are many other factors.
Theories that try to deterministically prevent events fail

Contradiction between Marxian theory and actions (Lenin)
Even in economic equality partial acc. to facts create conflict.
False determinism
Fatalistic view on human nature