@ebbot 2/2 society. Everything now depends on technique. We live incontestably in a society that is totally made by it and for it. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 3/3 techniques and the objectives of assured growth. Finally, we are told that to the degree that people are not at a technical level we must invent or create a new people who can use techniques correctly so as to achieve the best result that will not slow progress or have adverse effects. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 4/4 Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 2/2 communication and data processing. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 2/2 have to ask and handle. But technique cannot deal with such things. It functions merely because it functions. It is self-reproductive. Each technical advance serves first to produce new techniques. It is itself the center of attention and allows of no questioning outside the mechanical sphere. It is not interested in what serves humanity. Its only interest is in itself. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 2/2 1960s, an attempt which finally failed when it came up against the structures of our society, is no longer conceivable to the extent that technique functions in networks. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

@ebbot 2/2 modern society an individual%27s loyalty must be first to the system and only secondarily to a small-scale community, because if the internal loyalties of small-scale communities were stronger than loyalty to the system, such communities would pursue their own advantage at the expense of the syste --Ted Kaczynki, Technological Slavery (2010) #technology #dystopia