 Marlin adds that for Ellul, propaganda is a "technique" that promotes acceptance of other techniques in a mass society where people are routinely victims of the illusion that technology will solve all our problems.Thus, propaganda is needed to adjust people to conditions imposed by technological development --- conditions that may require them to adapt to the increasingly inescapable requirements of the technological system.Elsewhere, Marlin has argued that the large and powerful vested interests that benefit from what he calls "the technological system" generate systematic propaganda glorifying technology.