Pseudo-environment

...Of course, many people had issued similar warnings before Boorstin. For example, in Public Opinion (1922), social and political thinker W. Lippmann (1889-1974) pointed out the difference between the real environment surrounding humans and the picture of the environment that humans have in their minds, naming the former the "real environment" and the latter the "pseudo-environment," and expressed deep concern about our maladjustment due to the expansion of the pseudo-environment. Shimizu Ikutaro was also one of the first to raise the issue of the "expansion of environments provided as copies." ...

*Some explanations of terms that refer to "pseudo-environment" are listed below.

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…もとより，ブーアスティンに先立って同じ趣旨の警告を発したひとは少なくない。たとえば社会･政治思想家リップマンW.Lippmann(1889‐1974)は《世論》(1922)のなかで，人間を取り巻く現実の環境と，人間が頭の中に描いた環境の映像pictureとの違いを指摘し，前者を〈現実環境〉，後者を〈擬似環境pseudo‐environment〉と名づけた上で，擬似環境の肥大によるわれわれの不適応に深い憂慮を示した。清水幾太郎もまた，〈コピーとして提供される環境の拡大〉をいち早く問題にした一人である。…

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