Jacques Ellul - The Betrayal by Technology part 2 of 6

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Uploaded by on Sep 10, 2009

Philosopher and Sociologist Jacques Ellul explains how technology is not "neutral" and is implicated in every aspect of social relations. I hope this video helps explain why green anarchists are not setting for less when they defend small-scale organization.

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  • This is wonderfull video. Ellul is one of the wisest men of the 20th century.

  • Agreed he was a remarkable thinker.

    oh and Septeus you don't need to post your opinion trashing every part of his videos simply because you don't understand his work. Remember "If you don't have anything nice to say don't say it at all"

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  • Language is a form of technology. Language is the tool for identifying what is economically sacred in a particular culture. For sacred language to be applied to industrial technology and ideology is no different fundamentally than to apply sacred language to agrarian technology and ideology or primitive technology and ideology.

  • "When I say that I “despise technology,” I should perhaps explain. It is not technology per se, but the authoritarian power that the “technocrats” seek to exercise, as well as the fact that technology determines our lives without our being able to intervene or, as yet, control it."

    - Jacques Ellul , Perspectives on Our Age (1981)

  • This totally nonsense. Egyptian used wheels all the time and they even invented the spoked wheel. The is guy is clueless.

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