Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities.

Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to the Kingdom of God. I am convinced that all the works of humankind will be reintegrated in the work of God, and that each of us, no matter how sinful, will ultimately be saved.

And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world

The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There is no propaganda as long as one makes use, in a sporadic fashion and at random, of a newspaper article here, a poster or radio program there.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.