I am striving . . . to discover whether man still has a place in this tangle; whether he still has any authority among these colossal masses in movement; whether he still can exert any force whatever on the statistics which are slipping from his hands into the abstract and the unreal. Can he have a place, authority, and possibility of action on a better basis than ill-founded declarations of hope or blind acts of unreasonable faith? ~ Jacques Ellul A friend of ours has observed that one of the consequences of having children and grandchildren is that "they give … Continue reading Watching the Collapse of Western Civilization