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Enclosed Within His Artificial Creation, Man Finds That There Is “no Exit”; That He Cannot Pierce The Shell Of Technology Again To Find The Ancient Milieu To Which He Was Adapted For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years . In Our Cities There Is No More Day Or Night Or Heat Or Cold. But There Is Overpopulation, Thralldom To Press And Television, Total Absence Of Purpose. All Men Are Constrained By Means External To Them To Ends Equally External. The Further The Technical Mechanism Develops That Allows Us To Escape Natural Necessity, The More We Are Subjected To Artificial Technical Necessities.
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Enclosed Within His Artificial Creation, Man Finds

Jacques Ellul
Enclosed Within His Artificial Creation, Man Finds That There Is “no Exit”; That He Cannot Pierce The Shell Of Technology Again To Find The Ancient Milieu To Which He Was Adapted For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years . In Our Cities There Is No More Day Or Night Or Heat Or Cold. But There Is Overpopulation, Thralldom To Press And Television, Total Absence Of Purpose. All Men Are Constrained By Means External To Them To Ends Equally External. The Further The Technical Mechanism Develops That Allows Us To Escape Natural Necessity, The More We Are Subjected To Artificial Technical Necessities.
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