Our Deepest Secrets
With the final integration of the instinctive and the spiritual
by means of human techniques,
the edifice of the technical society
will be completed.
It will not be a universal concentration camp,
for it will be guilty of no atrocity.
It will not seem insane
for everything will be ordered,
and the stains of human passion
will be lost amid the chromium gleam.
We shall have nothing more to lose,
and nothing to win.
Our deepest instincts
and our most secret passions
will be analyzed, published,
and exploited.
–Excerpt The Technological Society
by Jacques Ellul p. 427
