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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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Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.
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I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.
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The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.
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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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The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There is no propaganda as long as one makes use, in a sporadic fashion and at random, of a newspaper article here, a poster or radio program there.
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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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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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It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.
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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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The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.
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All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
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In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
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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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Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
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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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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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Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
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