Globalization and the Alienation of Man: An Analysis Based Upon Jacques Ellul’s Sociology of Technique
Globalization and the Alienation of Man: An Analysis Based Upon Jacques Ellul’s Sociology of Technique

Summary/Abstract: The whole world finds itself in the era dubbed the Technetronic Era by Zbigniew Brzezinski. This is the era of globalization and of the expansion of a model of society based on technology and the dominion of the market. But it is more than that. It is the era of the technical society, of the absorption of human existence into what Jacques Ellul called the “technical system.” This is a process that is driven by the trend toward homogeneity, towards the absorption into the monad, a process that equals a kind of death. The technique, as Ellul puts it, is one the most important spiritual issues of modernity and is a factor that leads humanity into a totalitarian, despotic nightmare under the guise of the common good and the banner of saving the planet

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