Insurance and the Acceptance of Dehumanization
What technique can teach us about insurance
No area of modern life seems to demand that I acquiesce to my own dehumanization more than insurance, especially health or life insurance.
One of the basic themes in You Are Not Your Own is Ellul’s idea of technique. A paraphrase of Ellul’s definition might be that technique is the effort to maximize efficiency in every sphere of human existence. Ellul’s…
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