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...
mean hands games
When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.
mistake people soul
People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.
men play leisure
Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
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.