The Technological Society Vintage ~ 1964 449 pp. But they are so far removed from reality that their opinion is negligible.”, “The tool enables man to conquer. He was created with a certain essential unity, and he is fragmented by all the forces of the modern world.”, “If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adaptation and increasing success as his sole objectives; if we do not even consider the possibility of making a stand against these determinants, then everything will happen as I have described it, and the determinates will be transformed into inevitabilities.”, “The individual is in a dilemma: either he decides to safeguard his freedom of choice, chooses to use traditional , personal, moral, or empirical means, thereby entering into competition with a power against which there is no efficacious defense and before which he must suffer defeat; or he decides to accept technical necessity, in which case he will himself by the victor, but only by submitting irreparably to technical slavery. He was made to eat when he was hungry and to sleep when he was sleepy; instead, he obeys a clock. Like “For the Greeks, physical exercise was an ethic for developing freely and harmoniously the form and strength of the human body. ― Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society. . Ellul writes in an academic style that is not always very accessible, but often presents his arguments in a wonderfully lucid way. Modern society is, in fact, conducted on the basis of purely technical considerations. Everything is its concern.”, “The man of today is no longer able to understand his neighbor because his profession is his whole life, and the technical specialization of this life has forced him to live in a closed universe.”, “No technique is possible when men are free.”, “If a whole people is oriented toward the search for justice or purity, if it obeys in depth the primacy of the spiritual, it does not suffer from the lack of material things, just as we today do not feel the inverse need of the spiritual.”, “The old dream that has tempted man from the beginning, the medieval legend of the man who sells his soul for an inexhaustible purse, which recurs with an enticing insistence through all the changes of civilization, is perhaps in process of being realized, and not a for a single man but all.”, “The stage in which the human being was a mere slave of the mechanical tyrant has been passed. He must adapt himself, as though the world were new, to a universe for which he was not created. ~ $15 (paper) The Political Illusion Knopf ~ 1967 258 pp. Last edited on 20 November 2019, at 06:48, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Technological_Society&oldid=927084751, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 November 2019, at 06:48.
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