The Technological Bluff By Jacques Ellul (new World Order Related)

One of the eventual final books written by Jacques Ellul is The Technological Bluff. An important continuation from his previous titles, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes and The Technological Society, this brilliant author, ahead of his time, dispels the stereotypical idea of technological progress by means of a binding cascade of truth, wisdom, and foresight of the foreseeable future.

The book is structured in three parts, Uncertainty, Discourse, and The Triumph of the Absurd. The cardinal bifurcation of his thesis turns thus to technique and technology. Entirely, the former addresses a process while the latter of a system. The book in itself is multifaceted and launches into multiple, versatile trajectories of thought.

The reader should be aware, though, of the nature of Jacques Ellul’s limitations and handicaps. Although a talented thinker, he did not pose the quality of control above technocrats and politicians. The attributes of propaganda described by Ellul were the very factors that gripped control over his thought process. Specifically, he is looking at the effects of the technological system, and not the root cause. You will find a longer explanation of what is meant in The Breakthrough.

The majority of technocratic development within this system is orchestrated and planned in advanced. Thus when Ellul describes scenarios such as how "the French budget now amounts to more than one trillion francs and the foreign trade deficit is 360 billion francs; public debt increases every year:614 billion in 1982, 900 billion in 1984, one trillion in 1985, 1.1 trillion in 1986, representing 20 percent of the gross national product. Interest aloneon the debt amounts to $100 billion a year. The American budget deficit was $220 billion in 1984 (6.6 percent of the gross national product).Foreign debt in France was 20 billion francs in 1980, 75 billion in 1982.The U.S. Federal Reserve reports an "explosion" (Bourguinat) of trading deals on the various exchanges of up to $200 billion a day. We have already seen that the indebtedness of black Africa amounts to $110 billion.Cuba alone (an interesting point) is in debt to the tune of $3 billion. The debts of the Third World amounted to $1 trillion in 1985, with interest of $140 billion, which would absorb all the disposable revenues of the countries concerned. This foreign debt increased by $620 billion in five years, and the countries as a whole would have to contribute 67 percent of their revenues to pay off the debt," (p.246) these circumstances are not mere accidents. Outlined in Ellul's terminology, technique drives the folly of this economic "progress," shaping the individual into a mere automaton of this system.

By: Darius Alexander

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