Jacques Ellul Games Quotations

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses. He cannot escape the mass; but he can draw between himself and that mass an invisible curtain, a screen, on which the mass will see projected the mirage of some politics, while the real politics are being made behind it.