Technology is just a tool. What we optimize with it is more up to ideology. So right now what technology optimizes is the needs of capitalism at the expense of human needs.. Nothing bad in optimization as such.. the question is what are we oprtimizing
Ellul has to be one of the most underappreciated thinkers of the 20th century.
Thank you...👍🙏
Appreciate the video! Just one observation, technology is not and has never been neutral and Ellul understood this.
That was my one criticism of this video as well. Technology always has a bent, a telos, a directional goal. Otherwise an excellent summary of Ellul.
Because things are not released inot a vacuum, technology always ends up having its own agenda.
I wish the speaker would make some effort to pronounce Ellul's name more or less corectly.
That's a good AI voice
Very efficient
Professor. Kaczynsky brought me here
Magnificent! Heed! Abide!
Technology is just a tool. What we optimize with it is more up to ideology. So right now what technology optimizes is the needs of capitalism at the expense of human needs.. Nothing bad in optimization as such.. the question is what are we oprtimizing
You clearly didn't get Ellul's point. Efficiency as a quality, and a supreme one as such is the disease of modernity.
The AI voice over is a bit unnecessary