Just started Ellul’s the Presence of the Kingdom In the same way I was terrified by how right Ellul was be explaining the rise of technique in the technological society, the same terror the unabomber experienced, Ellul’s “diagnosis of the solution that is not a solution” gave me great joy and peace It’s very simple It’s the presence of the kingdom of God Bearing witness to that, no technique associated with it The spiritual reality of our souls and how we can be in the world, actually required to be in the world but not of it All technique is of the world Without Christ, like the secular Unabomber got caught in, the churning wheel of samsara and its technique is pure entropy It is an eschatological work particularly when paired with the technological society, dealing with the end of time which Jesus said a lot about But unlike current popular delusions and technique based eschatology so popular with the rationalists and their AI safety techniques, along with the evangelicals and their techniques to use Israel as the method to bring about their interpretations of what the book of revelation says He doesn’t provide a technique That would defeat the entire purpose This is why it’s so beautiful How can we know Gods will? To think that one knows Gods will is a giant wall of hubris in between God and his will That’s being of the world, acting based off egoic interpretations of what’s god will is This is what the Unabomber could not grok because of his secularism All we need to “do” and its not really a doing, more just a recognition, is too follow the new covenant: 1. Love god with all our hearts and minds 2. Love thy neighbor like thyself That’s basically it The revolutionary act is just love and always has been, that’s the way to contend with the technological acceleration now too hard to ignore