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...
writing dark men
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion...
light identity attention
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very week identity.
today tomorrow mysticism
Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.
understanding influence behavior
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
men credit poverty
Money is a poor man's credit card.
patterns conformity revulsion
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
agency today classroom
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
business curves want
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
men division-of-labor involved
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
agency expression political
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
art intelligent people
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
reflection faithful one-day
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
inspirational media information
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
mind magic tunes
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.