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“But how can we believe that in a civilization entirely oriented toward the pursuit of comfort and the raising of the material living standard, intent on mobilizing all its powers toward that end while increasingly integrating the individual by systematic means — how can we believe that in such a civilization the state would take the chance of of making concessions to spiritual autonomy?”

  — Jacques Ellul, The Political Illusion

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