"To convulse the mass of the people and draw them actively into the public affairs, the impact of events must be direct and extensive upon the realms of privacy. They must disturb drastically the common way of life, as when able-bodied men are mobilized for war, or a city is sacked, or whole communities devastated by catastrophe. Not only must the effect penetrate private careers and separate households; it must appear to transcend private and customary remedies. It must, too, be so long-continued and cumulatively provoking that men lose hope of a natural return of their normal expectations (4)." The Method of Freedom, by Walter Lippman (1934).