As a secular salvation boom boom boom on the big drum Progressivism in this country always was and remains a tool of Das Kapital. As to the right, they also are a tool. Ellul writing on technique:
“If technique is total, if it is all-encompassing (that is, if the system of technique integrates into itself every phenomenon that arises), if it is “assimilative” (in the sense that all revolutionary movements are ultimately assimilated), then what can escape the system of technique? From a human outlook, we see nothing that does. We therefore need a transcendence in order to escape it. Only something that belongs to neither our history nor our world can do this
Of course not. The implicate order is not proved. Only is. And this is why human reason rests on the unknowable and merely the probable from a subjective standpoint. As the Greeks said “Nature likes to hide.”
Interesting to note that Bonnie was and is a life-time leftie
As indeed any reasonably sane person would be
As a secular salvation boom boom boom on the big drum Progressivism in this country always was and remains a tool of Das Kapital. As to the right, they also are a tool. Ellul writing on technique:
“If technique is total, if it is all-encompassing (that is, if the system of technique integrates into itself every phenomenon that arises), if it is “assimilative” (in the sense that all revolutionary movements are ultimately assimilated), then what can escape the system of technique? From a human outlook, we see nothing that does. We therefore need a transcendence in order to escape it. Only something that belongs to neither our history nor our world can do this
You definitely will not and cannot find such a "transcendent" order in any of the sources that you quote and refer to.
Of course not. The implicate order is not proved. Only is. And this is why human reason rests on the unknowable and merely the probable from a subjective standpoint. As the Greeks said “Nature likes to hide.”