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Jacques Ellul

Ellul on the Void and the Wasteland

"We can no longer communicate with one another because our neighbors have ceased to be real to us." In 1948!

Jacques Ellul

Ellul on the Death of Contemplation and Intuition

Thinkers in all fields have become constrained by a need to produce practical results, and they do so by using technique -- or is it technique that uses them?

Jacques Ellul

Ellul on the Suicide of the Mind

Intellectuals either accept the prevailing myths (which they know are false) for the sake of their careers, or else decide: "LOL nothing matters." It's the same thing.

Jacques Ellul

Ellul on Being Alive

True action is a matter of living, not of doing, and that is the revolutionary attitude Christians should take in the world.

Jacques Ellul

Ellul on the True Value of Means

So what are Christians supposed to do about all these other means? Stop thinking of them as means, for one thing.

Jacques Ellul

Ellul on the Illusion of Inner Freedom

"Means" destroy everything that might hinder their advance, and little by little extend their dominion over everything, turning humans into objects to be acted upon.

Jacques Ellul

Ellul on Self-Justifying Means

Genies, bottles, toothpaste, tubes.

Jacques Ellul

Ellul on the Disappearing End

The means justify the means. Ellul writes that humans have set off at high speeds toward nowhere.

Jacques Ellul

Things Fall Apart, But the Center, It Holds

Political debates, Jacques Ellul wrote, are always about power, never about change. The appearance of movement and development are illusions.

Jacques Ellul

Living in Reality

Alan Jacobs on Jacques Ellul.