Jacques Ellul - The Betrayal by Technology (1992)

video: http://www.rerunproducties.nl/film%20ellul.htm

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

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
Jacques Ellul

http://people.usd.edu/~ssanto/ellul.html

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I do not agree with all his beliefs ... but I do agree with many.