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...
evil denial succeed
Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
life way modern
The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.
past views mirrors
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
mean men technology
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr
patriotism typography familiar
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
exploration
I do not explain, I explore.
water fishes
Fish did not discover water.
suicide sex body
For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.
song jobs book
The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the product goes to work on the hypnotized viewer. Those who have spent their lives protesting about 'false and misleading ad copy' are godsends to advertisers, as teetotalers are to brewers, and moral censors are to books and films. The protesters are the best acclaimers and accelerators. Since the advent of pictures, the job of the ad copy is as incidental and latent as the 'meaning' of a poem is to a poem, or the words of a song are to a song.
art attitude writing
An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. Any expensive ad is as carefully built on the tested foundations of public stereotypes or 'sets' of established attitudes, as any skyscraper is built on bedrock.
communication offering world
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener
nervous electricity human-experience
Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.
village situation interfaces
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
character two world
Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.