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...
singing advertising-business littles
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
firsts immortality printing
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
letting-go technology men
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
science independence world
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
real men inspire
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
tone social members
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
science technology data
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
mean typewriters transcribing
A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
birthday age century
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
grievance jokes
Jokes are grievances.
hippie messages mediums
The medium is the message.
ignorant investing scientist
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
media cultural-change
All media work us over completely.
art eye magic
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?