No One Knows Where We Are Going,

For In A Civilization Which Has Lost The Meaning Of Life, The Most Important Thing A Christian Can Do Is To Live, And Life, Understood From The Point Of View Of Faith, Has An Extraordinary Explosive Force.

Human Life As A Whole Is Not Inundated By Technique. It Has Room For Activities That Are Not Rationally Or Systematically Ordered. But The Collision Between Spontaneous Activities And Technique Is Catastrophic For The Spontaneous Activities.

Totalitarianism Extends To Whatever Touches It...psychological Technique, As It Operates In The Army Or In A Great Industrial Plant, Entails A Direct Action On The Family. It Involves A Psychological Adaptation Of Family Life To Military Or Industrial Methods, Supervision Of Family Life, And Training Family Life For Military Or Industrial Service. Technique Can Leave Nothing Untouched In A Civilization. Everything Is Its Concern. Technique, Which Is Destroying All Other Civilizations, Is More Than A Simple Mechanism: It's A Whole Civilization In Itself.

Hate, Hunger, And Pride Make Better Levers Of Propaganda Than Do Love Or Impartiality.

In Point Of Fact There Are A Certain Number Of Values And Of Forces Which Are Of Decisive Importance In Our World Civilization: The Primacy Of Production, The Continual Growth Of The Power Of The State And The Formation Of The National State, The Autonomous Development Of Technics, Etc. These, Among Others - Far More Than The Ownership Of The Means Of Production Or Any Totalitarian Doctrine - Are The Constitutive Elements Of The Modern World. So Long As These Elements Continue To Be Taken For Granted, The World Is Standing Still.