Culture is necessarily humanistic or it does not exist at all.… answers questions about the meaning of life, the possibility of reunion with ultimate being, the attempt to overcome human finitude, and all other questions that they have to ask and handle. But technique cannot deal with such things.… Culture exists only if it raises the question of meaning and values [valuations.… Technique is not at all concerned about the meaning of life, and it rejects any relation to values valuations.Ellul's core accusation is that instrumental efficiency has become absolute, i.e., a "good-in-itself"; it wraps societies in a new technological milieu with six intrinsically inhuman characteristics: