Will Marshall
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more conservative orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council...
suicidal technology men
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.
hard-work obsolete working-it
If it works, it's obsolete.
moving giving anticipation
Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.
tools firsts
First we build the tools, then they build us.
writing magazines care
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
may literacy schizophrenia
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
future mirrors human-nature
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
reality voting-age political
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
people sanity institutions
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
art business journey
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
art real mean
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
mean artist bridges
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
mom baby thinking
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
peace ubuntu long
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.