c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…the application of science to the conquest of nature nevertheless is susceptible to millenarian expectations. The French sociologist Jacques Ellul was a radical technological sociologist and he had a famous aphorism which was: there are no political solutions,…
…what values will be served, and it's a political thing. I always it's amazing come back to this thing that this French sociologist Jacques Ellul said. It seems like a very deep statement that we can we return to it year after year. He said there are no…
…French sociologist about 15 years ago who had some vogue and then faded. I don't know what his name was, but his name was Jacques Ellul, and he wrote a book called the technological society, and in there he had an axiom and the axiom was: there are no…
…and the cultural wars to this fact? Well, I think it is deconstructing culture. I go back to the French sociologist Jacques Ellul. I quote nearly every time I speak his statement: there are no political solutions, only technological ones. The REST is…
…time for a deep revisioning of what these concepts can mean for us. You know it was a Great French sociologist, Jacques Ellul who said there are no political solutions, only technological ones. The REST is propaganda. And if you include in the definition…
…and save the Earth, I don't propose to discuss it or really know. I do think, you know, the French sociologist Jacques Ellul once said, he said, there are no political solutions. There are only technological ones. The rest is propaganda. And he wrote…