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...
mother children perception
The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.
confused worship sincerity
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
art get-away artist
Art is anything you can get away with.
change growth belief
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
men land doe
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.
life attitude views
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
media perception arbitrary
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
success powerful political
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
technology impact messages
The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.
evil secret denial
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.
environment process containers
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
tools shapes
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
meaningful spiritual identity
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
drama depth youth
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.