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The technical and economic processes of modern civilisation turn the person into their own tool, they demand from it an incessant activity, making use of each moment of life for activity. Modern civilisation negates contemplation and threatens to completely shove it out from life, to make it impossible. This will mean, that man ceases to pray, that he will no longer have any sort of relationship to God, that he will no longer see beauty and unselfishly know truth. The person is defined not only in relation to time, but also in relation to eternity. The actualism of modern civilisation is a denial of eternity, is an enslavement of man to time. No one instant of life thus is of value in itself, nor has relationship to eternity or God, every moment is but a means for the one following, needing all the more quickly but to pass away and be replaced by another. The exclusive actualism of suchlike a sort changes the relationship to time -- there occurs an acceleration of time, a mad chase. The person cannot hold on amidst the flooding current of time, in this actualisation of each moment, it is unable to think about matters, it is unable to conceive of the meaning of its own life, since meaning is always revealed in relation to eternity, and the flood of time is of itself incomprehensible……Man is a creative being, an image of the Creator. But the activeness, which modern civilisation demands from man, essentially, is a denial of his creative nature, and therefore it is a denial of man himself. The creativity of man presupposes the combining of contemplation and action. The very distinction between contemplation and action is relative. Spirit is essentially active, and in contemplation there is a dynamic element. We come nigh the final problem, connected with the spiritual condition of the contemporary world, to the problem of man, as a religious problem. Since the crisis of man occurs within the world, it is not only a crisis within man, but is also the crisis of man himself. The utmost existence of man is rendered problematic. (I think this is Ellul.)
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