At the edge of history Book

* At the Edge of History: Speculations of the Transformation of Culture* is an interesting title to me, a former graduate student in history. The author of this useful work mentions Jacques Ellul's very perceptive tome *The Technological Society* (1967): "To separate the way in which men have finally listened to themselves is to achieve the triumph of what Jacques Ellul calls 'technique' by substituting the efficiency fo systems for the experience of men (Thompson, p, 110)." Thompson advocates for the transformation of the liberal-industrial worldview, ideology. "We will have come right up to where we are, and who we are. At the edge of history, history itself can no longer help us, and only myth remains equal to reality. What we know is less than what we are, and the politics of miracle must be unacceptable to our knowledge to be worthy of our being" (Thompson, p. 163). An unexpected bonus to aficionados of Pythagoreanism is his model of self and civilization in NOTES.