The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.

Jacques Ellul (French: [ɛlyl]; January 6 1912 – May 19 1994) was a French philosopher law professor sociologist lay theologian and Christian anarchist. And it creates an artificial system which "eliminates or subordinates the natural world. This movement is invading the whole intellectual domain and also that of conscience.

He wrote several books about the technological society propaganda and the interaction between religion and politics including Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. Considered by many a philosopher Ellul was actually a sociologist who approached the question of technology and human action from a dialectical viewpoint. As a philosopher and theologian he further explored the religiosity of the technological society.