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2020年8月10日月曜日

人は、直接の確実な知識に基づいて行動するのではなく、自分で想像し作成した描像に基づいて行動する。その描像は、その瞬間の彼の感情、希望、努力を決定するが、現実に何が達成されるか、結果するかは決定しはしない。(ウォルター・リップマン(1889-1974))

擬似環境の描像は感情、希望、努力を決定する

【人は、直接の確実な知識に基づいて行動するのではなく、自分で想像し作成した描像に基づいて行動する。その描像は、その瞬間の彼の感情、希望、努力を決定するが、現実に何が達成されるか、結果するかは決定しはしない。(ウォルター・リップマン(1889-1974))】
This, then, will be the clue to our inquiry. We shall assume that what each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him. If his atlas tells him that the world is flat he will not sail near what he believes to be the edge of our planet for fear of falling off. If his maps include a fountain of eternal youth, a Ponce de Leon will go in quest of it. If someone digs up yellow dirt that looks like gold, he will for a time act exactly as if he had found gold. The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do. It does not determine what they will achieve. It determines their effort, their feelings, their hopes, not their accomplishments and results. The very men who most loudly proclaim their "materialism" and their contempt for "ideologues," the Marxian communists, place their entire hope on what? On the formation by propaganda of a class-conscious group. But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another? What is class consciousness but a way of realizing the world? National consciousness but another way? And Professor Giddings' consciousness of kind, but a process of believing that we recognize among the multitude certain ones marked as our kind?
(出典:Walter Lippmann"Public Opinion",PART I. INTRODUCTION, I. The World Outside and the Pictures in Our HeadsPublic Opinion(Walter Lippmann))
(索引:擬似環境,感情,希望,努力)

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