Quote of the day, Tuesday, July 1 [i'm not sure if he's writing hyperbolically or not. i'm thinking not, but there's such an apocalyptic feel to this passage that i'm not sure how anyone took him seriously.] "...all the "means" [technology, etc.] at our disposal, all these technical means which the modern world has created in its pride and vanity--money, and michanical force, and propaganda, the cinema and the press, comfort, or the means of communication--all this miserable pandemonium in the midst of which bewildered men and women do not know what to do--may be put in their right place, if they are set in the perspective of that end [an escatalogical view], already present in the means that God uses." --Jacques Ellul, _The Presence of the Kingdom_, 2nd ed. (1989) pp. 71