sustaining & esxtending the war that never ends

[Terrance]

What is the war that never ends? Theater or Theatre? 


The widening of the area of shared concerns, and the liberation of a
greater diversity of personal capacities which characterize a democracy,
are not of course the product of deliberation and conscious effort. On
the contrary, they were caused by the development of modes of
manufacture and commerce, travel, migration, and intercommunication
which flowed from the command of science over natural energy.  But after
greater individualization on one hand, and a broader community of
interest on the other have come to existence, it is a matter of
deliberate effort to sustain and extend them.  Obviously a society to
which satisfaction into separate classes would be fatal, must see to it
that intellectual opportunities are accessible to all on equable and
easy terms.  A society marked off into classes need be specially
attentive only to the education of its ruling elements.  A society which
is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change
occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to
personal initiative and adaptability.  Otherwise, they will be
overwhelmed by the changes in which they are caught and whose
significance or connection they do not perceive. The result will be a
confusion in which a few will appropriate to themselves the results of
the blind and externally directed activities of others. 

        --Dewey,  Democracy & Education