"We have lost the ability to penetrate below the phenomenal aspect of the "kairoi" or moments of time -- that is, the complex of people, events, ideas, organisms, and objects that constitute human experience -- and to perceive reality... The result, according to Ellul, is that "shadows" become the essence of one's life and thinking... He gets used to living in complete incoherence, because all his intellectual activity is taken up with these visions, themselves without a past and without a future, without any substance even in the present..." --Jacques Ellul and the Problem of Communication