La technique n'est plus un intermédiaire incertain et incomplet entre l'homme et le milieu naturel. Ce dernier est totalement dominé et utilisé (dans la société occidentale). La technique constitue désormais une matrice qui se substitue à la nature.

– Jacques Ellul in “Recherche pour une Éthique dans une société technicienne,” Morale et Enseignement, 1983, page 7

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Who was Bernard Charbonneau? 🧶

Bernard Charbonneau was raised in the Bordeaux bourgeoisie. He obtained his agrégation in 1935.

In 1945, he decided not to pursue an academic career and, ‘eager to live in the countryside, he obtained a position at a small teacher training college in the Pyrenean foothills, in Lescar, France, where he remained until his retirement’. (written by Daniel Cérézuelle, in ‘Ecology and Freedom: Bernard Charbonneau: Pioneer of Political Ecology’, Lyon, Parangon/Vs, coll. ‘après-développement’, 2006)

He viewed technical progress as the source of ever-increasing organisation, and therefore greater conformity, hence less freedom. He was a close friend of Jacques Ellul for six decades.

In his own words (in Combat nature no. 106, August 1994): https://lagrandemue.wordpress.com/2019/11/20/bio-graphie/

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Qui était Bernard Charbonneau ? 🧶

Bernard Charbonneau a été élevé dans la bourgeoisie bordelaise. Il a obtenu l’agrégation en 1935.

En 1945, il décide de ne pas faire de carrière universitaire et "désireux de vivre à la campagne, il se fait nommer dans une petite école normale d'instituteurs du Piémont pyrénéen, à Lescar, près de Pau, où il reste jusqu'à sa retraite." (écrit Daniel Cérézuelle, in "Écologie et liberté : Bernard Charbonneau : précurseur de l'écologie politique", Lyon, Parangon/Vs, coll. « après-développement », 2006)

Il voyait dans le progrès technique la source de toujours plus d'organisation, donc de plus de conformisme, donc de moins de liberté. Il a été l'ami intime de Jacques Ellul durant six décennies.

Par lui-même (dans Combat nature n° 106, août 1994) : https://lagrandemue.wordpress.com/2019/11/20/bio-graphie/

Cinq heures de discussions biographiques : https://lesamisdebartleby.wordpress.com/2023/11/15/une-promenade-biographique-avec-bernard-charbonneau/

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@tg9541 I have the Kahneman on my bookshelf. 😀 Ah so you have seen "Institute for Propaganda Analysis" from which the 7 signs of propaganda came from. (Interesting homework, apply the list to commercials/ads you see!) the How much of Plato have you read? Machiavelli (read his far more interesting Discourses)? I found echos of this theme in Plato's Republic where he talks about various types of people etc. There is a thread of elitism all through history. You might enjoy Jacques Ellul *Propaganda* and *Technological Society Ellul was well known.
Anything by Jason Stanley. Bernays considered the *father* of propaganda/PR. Which brings us to Ewen *A Social History of Spin* "First throughout the interview, Bernays expressed an unabashedly hierarchical view of society. Repeatedly he maintained that although most people respond to their world instinctively, without thought, there exist an "intelligent few" who have been charged with the responsibility of contemplating and influencing the tide of history." ibid
This seems to echo Lippmann's view as well which Dewey was opposed to. Oddly Chomsky thought Dewey was as a bad as Lippmann. "Among those who participated actively and enthusiastically in Wilson's war
were the progressive intellectuals, people of the John Dewey circle,..." - Media Control Chomsky

This should do for now...

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