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...
dad men media
You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?
mean media environment
Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
form
We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.
mediums
The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.
sex technology men
Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.
book reading successful
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
water not-sure fishes
I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish.
communication shapes association
The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
thinking matter sense-of-humor
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
education world expendables
Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.
mental-illness illness breakthrough
Any breakdown is a breakthrough.
feelings movement spontaneous
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
home car privacy
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.
fashion ends obsolescence
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.