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    JACQUES ELLUL The technological society “Man was made to do his daily work with his muscles, but see him now like a fly on flypaper seated at his desk for 8 hours, motionless at a desk; fifteen minutes of exercise cannot make up for eight hours of absence. The human being was made to breathe the good air of nature but what he breathes is an obscure compound of acids and coal tars. He was created for a living environment but he dwells in a lunar world of stone, cement, asphalt, glass, cast-iron and steel, The trees wilt and blanche amongst sterile and blind stone facades; cats and dogs disappear little by little from the city, going the way of the horse, Only rats and men remain to populate a dead world. Man was created to have room to move about in, to gaze into far distances, to live in rooms, which, even when they were tiny, opened out on fields. See him now, enclosed by the rules and architectural necessities imposed by over-population in a twelveby-twelve closet opening out on ananonymous world of city streets. (p.321)

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