“Cinderella, dressed in yellow, went upstairs and kissed a fellow, because she knows what she wants and takes concrete steps to achieve her ends.”
“The wheels on the bus go round and round, and so eventually mankind will get to the other side of the long arc of history.”
“Duck, duck, loosen your bias against the power of democratic discourse to radically free people, constituting a key element of that fuller human liberty known as positive freedom.”
“Mother, may I tell the shoemaker I’m the expert about whether my shoes fit, just as the democratic public is the real expert about complex policy matters?”
“Ring around the rosy, pocket full of posy, ashes, ashes, we all should respect the role of religion in public life, and even use the powerful rhetoric of godly experiences, but ultimately turn to experimentation according to the scientific method in order to reveal truth and thus make humanity better off.”
“Red rover, red rover, send journalist Walter Lippmann over, we’d like to have a word about his presumption that the public is ill-informed and incapable of meaningful political engagement.”
“London bridge is falling down, which just goes to show how socialization of losses is essential to individual development.”
“Simon says touch your toes. Simon says climb the monkey bars. Simon says if your old values are keeping you down, you should ditch them, because values are mere constructs individuals as social organisms design to enhance our problem solving.”
“Put your left foot in! Put your left foot out! Put your left foot in, and you shake it all about. We do the hokey pokey and we turn ourselves around, but despite doing the same steps we each have a different experience of the stimulus, and thus a different range of imagined possible responses to the game, due to our past experiences.”
“Tag—you’re it! You’re a Deweyan-pragmatist who wants to translate science through the art of communication for a maximally wide audience, in order to enliven the eclipsed democratic public to participate in decision making regarding aspects of the avowedly modern, complex world which directly or indirectly affect most citizens’ lives. Better get moving!”