“The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.”

— Czeslaw Milosz , book The Captive Mind

The Captive Mind (1953)

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Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator 1911–2004

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