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Modern Quotes by Jacques Ellul
- 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…
- The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief
- Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class…
- 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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