Jacques Ellul Quote

Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives—in short, all the technical laws and customs—which he encounters in office or factory.


p. 384 - The Technological Society (1954)


Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper...

Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper...

Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper...

Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper...