lippmann says, wake up. you have to be in charge. >> also being called to action instead of taking a more passive stance, but also the context of freudian psychological -- >> he does not mention freud there rectally here at all, but ideas areall of these coming. they are not deeply popular yet. that will be a later date, but freud has been to the united states by now and this notion of this unconscious roiling cauldron inside people making them do things they are not aware they are doing is there as well. yes. >> also by using the word dreaming, what comes to mind is a kind of idealism and he talked about this before -- when i thought he was a pragmatist, but when he says it calls to return back to nature, this is like an animal that tried to eat itself. it could manage with the hind legs, but the head presented difficulty. when we are dreaming, we are doing things that are not moving us to an action, falling back on this paradox almost. >> that's right. and when we are moving and living our lives in that wa

really, lippmann is talking science and democracy. takingre is a way of political action that is consonant -- the science of ways of thinking. at this intellectual predisposition with a kind of government, i kind of order. terrific. ok. anything else about lippmann? you noticed his anti-religious arguments here. right. kind of religion a mirage, something to make little people feel big, right? he is a relentlessly secular much like another who thought religion was an authoritarian way of thinking had notle who arrived at reflection and consciousness. all is not well therefore religion. friendly here is the opposite of rigorous. charge of one's intellect and one's own consciousness. as a kind ofpmann backdrop. his work as a rider and public intellectual thinker -- his work as a writer and a public intellectual thinker to what we might think of as engineers during today from such an. beginning with frederick winslow taylor. just a tiny bit of background on taylor and what he was responding to. book, which sums up his theories of managem

tom lippmann our in-house were marion told a story at ben's retirement of how the secretary approached twice daily story conferences than would make wisecracks, razz editors, trade insults and provide gossip about washington. if you were too sentimental and making a story pitch, ben would play an imaginary violin. if you went on too long, ben would roll his eyes or put his hands to his throat in a choking motion. [laughter] if you didn't have the story, he told you to go get it. being an editor is often mundane, exhausting work. ben made it seem fun. cool even. no wonder we all tried so desperately to be like him. ben was a tough man who hated lies and weakness but he also could be gentle and protective. many of us remember getting in trouble, making mistakes or being under public attack and having ben stride across the newsroom, put his arms around us, say something obscene and we knew instantly that everything would be fine. knowing ben's passion for all things fresh sally organized his birthday at field array. during his birthday dinner ben keeled over and we all thought oh my god i