Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
More Quotes from Jacques Ellul:
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.Jacques Ellul
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.
Jacques Ellul
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
Jacques Ellul
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth
Jacques Ellul
The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
Jacques Ellul
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