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...
yesterday today answers
Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.
technology men hula
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.
technology alphabet detachment
The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.
character age nervous
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
media psychics political
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.
machines gutenberg made
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.
television vanishing screens
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
lying names cameras
To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
military war division
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
mean doe village
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.
people alive
Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.
lunch fire people
The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
army government organization
With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.
thinking law justice
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.