Listen now (29 mins) | Not every society is ready to be propagandized and not all societies are equally receptive to it. So what conditions make a society fertile ground for the propagandist?
“Technique thus provides a model; it specifies attitudes that are valid once and for a ll The anxiety aroused in man by the turbulence of the machine is soothed by the consoling hum of a unified society. “
I’m reading a bio of t Jefferson and one of the outlooks of the enlightenment that he embraced was its universality and rationality. Just thinking out loud but I wonder if the rights of man and self evident truths were not another way of talking about a technical approach to the management of man as a whole, not just Northern European
I think the Industrial Revolution was just starting and tj didn’t want industry in the us or at least Virginia, but the enlightenment sounds like elluls description of technique. Tj saw himself and man as a whole as rational enough to govern himself without religion, so the rational part of elluls def is in tj
Excellent piece. One of the most thought provoking in a long time . I’m taking a look at ellule thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! Ellul is fantastic. Criminally under read.
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“Technique thus provides a model; it specifies attitudes that are valid once and for a ll The anxiety aroused in man by the turbulence of the machine is soothed by the consoling hum of a unified society. “
I’m reading a bio of t Jefferson and one of the outlooks of the enlightenment that he embraced was its universality and rationality. Just thinking out loud but I wonder if the rights of man and self evident truths were not another way of talking about a technical approach to the management of man as a whole, not just Northern European
I think the Industrial Revolution was just starting and tj didn’t want industry in the us or at least Virginia, but the enlightenment sounds like elluls description of technique. Tj saw himself and man as a whole as rational enough to govern himself without religion, so the rational part of elluls def is in tj
It is a testament to your toil in the fields that you make ready the ground that will receive this seed.
Dare I even admit what I am thinking?
I perceive the first glimmer of deliverance. I will follow the signs that lead in that direction.
Do you reproach me as one who has understood nothing of the vastness of the situation?
Are not all things possible with God?
At the very least, may I offer this - I cannot help but keep this hope at this time, because it is the last item contained within Pandora's box.
I am delighted you have hope! I do as well.