/lit/ - Literature

Sell me on Ellul, /lit/. What should I read besides The Technological Society? It can be in French.

>>15344167
>tfw ate the ellupill
>literally everything is a distraction
>if you do anything they win
>if you don't do anything they win
>in any case they win
>only God can save you

>>12297328
>except that the first one has testicles with 1 inch of hair on them, second one has two inches etc.

Don't ever post that dumb shit again.

“The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries abandoned the idea of spiritual or intellectual happiness in order to have this material happiness, consisting of a certain number of essential consumer goods. And hence, in the nineteenth century, happiness was linked to a well-being obtained by mechanical means, industrial means, production. The new thing that Saint-Just spoke about was that, in the past, happiness could appear as a very vague, very distant prospect for humanity, whereas now, people seemed to be within reach of the concrete, material possibility of attaining it. That was why happiness was to become an absolutely essential image for the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, and for modern society. Happiness was attainable thanks to industrial development, and this image of happiness brought us fully into the consumer society.”
― Jacques Ellul, Perspectives on Our Age

“Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is "no exit"; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient milieu to which he was adapted for hundreds of thousands of years. . . . In our cities there is no more day or night or heat or cold. But there is overpopulation, thralldom to press and television, total absence of purpose. All men are constrained by means external to them to ends equally external. The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities.”
― Jacques Ellul

Technophiles BTFO

>>12287271
Did someone say technological society?

>>12214646
>trapped in a political illusion created by technique

Y’all need some Jesus in your lives.

Just read Ellul.

>>11166221
No.

>>11149848
Nah, God is the only exit.

>>10964661
Read you know who instead

>>10911008
This guy has the right idea. Ted was very heavily influenced by Ellul, especially by The Technological Society.

>By the time he encountered Ellul, Kaczynski recalled in 1998, “I had already developed at least 50% of the ideas of that book on my own, and … when I read the book for the first time, I was delighted, because I thought, ‘Here is someone who is saying what I have already been thinking.’”

>>10865133
The real problem here is that people keep reading it and don’t move on to anything better.