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...
real men inspire
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
tone social members
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
science technology data
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
mean typewriters transcribing
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
birthday age century
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
grievance jokes
Jokes are grievances.
hippie messages mediums
The medium is the message.
ignorant investing scientist
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
media cultural-change
All media work us over completely.
art eye magic
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?
thinking opposites people
I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.
real news journalism
The real news is bad news.
spiritual men cities
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.
real news world
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.