<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->the radical side of US religion has embraced cultural anti-modernism, war-hawkishness, Armageddon prophecy and, in the case of conservative fundamentalists, a demand for Governments by literal Biblical interpretation."
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This is not necessarily against modernism. They are reverting to an industrial mindset where the continuation of modernism requires an absence of mind in the worker. Communism, in contrast, had sought to assuage the brutality of industry with all sorts of tropes (eg human resources, environmentalism, sports, etc) where the illusion was given of a human stake or a personal dimension to the technical enterprise; thus the communist's familiar reprieve that "religion was opium". If they have reverted to religion, then the decision must have been made that all the various human techniques could not effectively integrate the human raw materials into modernism, at least they could not ever be as much opium as religion, tribalsim, etc. One can only take inane arguments over abortion rights, privacy rights, gun rights, etc, so far without seeming ludicrous.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Nevertheless, after the great efforts made from 1945 to 1960 in this direction, people have come to realize that technicization cannot take place from the outside, by the infusion of technological means;</b> for this involves a thorough metamorphosis of the society in question. That is why the application of technological means has not brought the intended results. Vast discouragement has seized hold of the nations and their leaders. Instead of asking why this failure has occurred on the level of technologies, the leaders, inspired by Western ideologues and propagandists, have preferred to create a political fabrication, which can only aggravate the situation. This fantastic analysis will obviously delay growth, but the error cannot hold out for long. <b>At bottom, the veering towards technicization has already begun, and all nations (except India) are basically convinced of the unique value of this route. </b>Hence, the principle cause now of technological universalism is that conviction, which has won out, from the Western countries to the entire world.14 Therefore universalism rests on two complementary givens.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.jesusradicals.com/library/ellul.php
see The Technological Society pdf p 193
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This is not necessarily against modernism. They are reverting to an industrial mindset where the continuation of modernism requires an absence of mind in the worker. Communism, in contrast, had sought to assuage the brutality of industry with all sorts of tropes (eg human resources, environmentalism, sports, etc) where the illusion was given of a human stake or a personal dimension to the technical enterprise; thus the communist's familiar reprieve that "religion was opium". If they have reverted to religion, then the decision must have been made that all the various human techniques could not effectively integrate the human raw materials into modernism, at least they could not ever be as much opium as religion, tribalsim, etc. One can only take inane arguments over abortion rights, privacy rights, gun rights, etc, so far without seeming ludicrous.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Nevertheless, after the great efforts made from 1945 to 1960 in this direction, people have come to realize that technicization cannot take place from the outside, by the infusion of technological means;</b> for this involves a thorough metamorphosis of the society in question. That is why the application of technological means has not brought the intended results. Vast discouragement has seized hold of the nations and their leaders. Instead of asking why this failure has occurred on the level of technologies, the leaders, inspired by Western ideologues and propagandists, have preferred to create a political fabrication, which can only aggravate the situation. This fantastic analysis will obviously delay growth, but the error cannot hold out for long. <b>At bottom, the veering towards technicization has already begun, and all nations (except India) are basically convinced of the unique value of this route. </b>Hence, the principle cause now of technological universalism is that conviction, which has won out, from the Western countries to the entire world.14 Therefore universalism rests on two complementary givens.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.jesusradicals.com/library/ellul.php
see The Technological Society pdf p 193