...the adoration of technology pre-empts the adoration of anything else...[religious symbols must] be made impotent as quickly as possible - that is, drained of sacred, or even serious, connotations. The elevation of one god requires the demotion of another.(an example would be the way clergy are portrayed in the media as idiots or terrorists)
Those who resist 'technopoly' are people-
who pay no attention to a poll unless they know what questions were asked and why...people who:
- refuse to accept efficiency as the pre-eminent goal of human relations
- who have freed themselves from the belief in the magical power of numbers
- who are, at least, suspicious of the idea of progress, and who do not confuse information with understanding
- who do not regard the aged as irrelevant
- who take the great narratives of religion seriously
- who know the difference between the sacred and the profane, and who do not wink at tradition for modernity's sake.
Quoted in Dawn, p.271, 282 &283
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