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
"We can no longer communicate with one another because our neighbors have ceased to be real to us." In 1948!
Jacques Ellul
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
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
True action is a matter of living, not of doing, and that is the revolutionary attitude Christians should take in the world.
Jacques Ellul
So what are Christians supposed to do about all these other means? Stop thinking of them as means, for one thing.
Jacques Ellul
"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
Genies, bottles, toothpaste, tubes.
Jacques Ellul
The means justify the means. Ellul writes that humans have set off at high speeds toward nowhere.
Jacques Ellul
Political debates, Jacques Ellul wrote, are always about power, never about change. The appearance of movement and development are illusions.
Jacques Ellul
Alan Jacobs on Jacques Ellul.