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Jacques Ellul
Age: 82 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 6
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
French Resistance Fighter
Philosopher
Sociologist
Theologian
University Teacher
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For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.
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When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them
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Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
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And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world
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The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.
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Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities.
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For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.
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Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
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Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category of science and only a short period of time
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Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.
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It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we boast of the continual decrease in human participation in technical operations.
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Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
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The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
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Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
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I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.
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Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world.
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Fate operates when people give up
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Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.
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Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.
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(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth
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