I Describe A World With

What We Are Witnessing At The Moment Is A Rearrangement Of The World In An Intermediate Stage; The Change Is Not In The Use Of A Natural Force But In The Application Of Technique To All Spheres Of Life.

Propaganda Must Not Concern Itself With What Is Best In Man - The Highest Goals Humanity Sets For Itself, Its Noblest And Most Precious Feelings. Propaganda Does Not Aim To Elevate Man, But To Make Him Serve. It Must Therefore Utilize The Most Common Feelings, The Most Widespread Ideas, The Crudest Patterns, And In So Doing Place Itself On A Very Low Level With Regard To What It Wants Man To Do And To What End. Hate, Hunger, And Pride Make Better Levers Of Propaganda Than Do Love Or Impartiality.

No Matter What God's Power May Be, The First Aspect Of God Is Never That Of The Absolute Master, The Almighty. It Is That Of The God Who Puts Himself On Our Human Level And Limits Himself.

Totalitarianism Extends To Whatever Touches It...psychological Technique, As It Operates In The Army Or In A Great Industrial Plant, Entails A Direct Action On The Family. It Involves A Psychological Adaptation Of Family Life To Military Or Industrial Methods, Supervision Of Family Life, And Training Family Life For Military Or Industrial Service. Technique Can Leave Nothing Untouched In A Civilization. Everything Is Its Concern. Technique, Which Is Destroying All Other Civilizations, Is More Than A Simple Mechanism: It's A Whole Civilization In Itself.

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.