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...
country organization village
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.
eye noses modern
The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.
responsibility mold carnegie
One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)
looks
As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.
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.
unique two discovery
When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
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.