Ellul on words
December 24, 2010
“[This watching of images] does not follow the slow and arduous path of language [and] also explains why we are naturally, through laziness, inclined to watch images rather than to read a long book or listen to a demonstration. Intellectual laziness causes the image to win out over the word automatically, and we observe its victory on every hand” (Ellul, The Humiliation of the Word, 37).
