Jacques Ellul - The Betrayal by Technology part 1 of 6

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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[debtinterest]

his books are just amazing... it will shatter a lot of people's mind, once read it....

[oARISTIDISo]

Un tel homme brillant vous remercier pour le téléchargement

[TheTTBT]

Marshall McLuhan discovered four laws which pertain to all media (technology). The law Ellul is discussing is The Reversal of an Overheated Medium. Under pressure all media reverse into their opposite form when too much pressure is exerted on them. A single car represents freedom. 3 Million cars is a reversal into traffic - the opposite of freedom. An airplane reverses into a missile, a light bulb burns out, the cellphone becomes a dog leash. Cash reverses into credit.

[ZwolfZki]

This is the kind of shit that makes me happy that I've learnt a lot of French over the past couple of years..

[MrSmbass1]

@debtinterest Reading Propaganda now! For the time it was made it is even more relevant now. Peace and love!

[twixcookie]

@MrMichuzz

Awesome truth.

[MrMichuzz]

thumbs up if the Unabomber brought you here

:)

[User100606]

(Continued)

25But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

26But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

27So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

28He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

[User100606]

Like how the shepherd lays the trap of the sheep for the lion, and then rescues the sheep and catches the lion. Similarly God says to be fruitful and multiply, and allows people to build these cities of vice, excess, temptations, and dis-ease, to separate the wheat from the chafe. Ponder on these verses from the Holy Bible, Matthew chapter 13:

24Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:

[User100606]

The only profession that God places us on this Earth for was always agriculture and is always agriculture, specifically the good shepherd. Not just the good shepherd of the Earth, animals, and people in general, but of one's own mind, by living a purely spiritual life free from all negativity in sanctimonious harmony with nature and all peoples, going to the extent of sacrificing oneself as a lamb or sheep so that others may live.