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...
order winner knows
The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.
home peculiar social
North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.
light culture gothic
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
block moving communication
Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.
giving mud depth
Even mud gives the illusion of depth.
literacy fractions has-beens
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
space nomadic
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
political information patterns
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.
moments obsolescence
Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.
stars acting would-be
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.
culture emotion natural
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.
mean perception language
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
art modern vulgar
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
youth helping revolutionary
Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.