Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
About Michel De Certeau
Michel de Certeau was a French Jesuit priest and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences as well as hermeneutics, semiotics, ethnology, and religion. He was known as a philosopher of everyday life and widely regarded as a historian who had interests ranging from travelogues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to contemporary urban life.
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Along with the lazy man… the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
French Jesuit and scholar
The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
French Jesuit and scholar
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
French Jesuit and scholar
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
French Jesuit and scholar