“I think an entirely technological culture would be an
entirely barbarous culture. No one believes that civilization can carry on
without some element of higher spiritual culture….
“The coming of age of technology only makes the need for Christian culture (or some alternative religious or humanist culture) more imperative. Even if, per impossible, all the spiritual traditions of culture could be temporarily suppressed, it could only lead to a nihilist revolution which would destroy the technological order itself, as I have pointed out many times in my writings. Orwell’s 1984 is a good picture of a pure technological order and the only fault I find with it is that he seems to believe it is a possibility.”
~Christopher Dawson: Letter of Jan. 29, 1955.
“The coming of age of technology only makes the need for Christian culture (or some alternative religious or humanist culture) more imperative. Even if, per impossible, all the spiritual traditions of culture could be temporarily suppressed, it could only lead to a nihilist revolution which would destroy the technological order itself, as I have pointed out many times in my writings. Orwell’s 1984 is a good picture of a pure technological order and the only fault I find with it is that he seems to believe it is a possibility.”
~Christopher Dawson: Letter of Jan. 29, 1955.
