Status Updates From Public Opinion

THE APPEAL TO REASON
Plato's ship at sea

"it is not the order of nature that I should handle a mutiny..."
"We shall all go on the rocks, they to be punished for their sins;, I, with the assurance that I knew better..."

Reason is slower than the rate at which action has to be taken
Discovery and the propagation of that which is proven takes time

Looking with hope even in dark events

Disputes and how judges decide the basic facts of an issue and "boil the fat out of" it, leaving only well defined facts.
All who are not entangled now will not be entangled as they can view the issue through the facts and not stereotypes and slogans.

All this can lead to the liquidation of the "censoring, stereotyping and dramatizing apparatus"

Civic education as preparation for dealing with the unseen environment

THE APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC

Private citizens couldn't digest all this information, most issues can only be dealt with by well informed insiders.
The public can only judge whether the conditions and procedures are sound, but not the facts themselves.

Appealing to the public usually means escaping insider criticism and winning popularity contest -> citizen can be made skeptical through education
Insisting on procedure

Information collected by bureaus would be available to all for study

Dry rot -> circulation of men and ideas b/w agencies