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...
mirrors moments status-quo
Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.
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.
space nomadic
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
environmental development patterns
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.
life-and-death alternatives
Life. Consider the alternative.
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?
vision operations critical
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
intelligent technology light
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
artist perception training
The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.
innovation identity violence
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
mistake moving knowledge
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
artist creative lasts
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
technology men hula
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.
technology patterns action
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.