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...
technology robots involved
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.
book stories
The story begins only when the book closes.
christian money power
I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety. The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals.
nature science law
Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.
mom dad character
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
men technology print
Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
real cities movement
The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.
echoes antiques radio
The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.
men effort world
The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.
education growing-up children
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.
media world
The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
thinking technology force
Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.
reading age middle
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
psychics action social
Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.