Despite his underlying faith in Christianity, Jacques Ellul is able to identify two kind of technologies. On one hand there is the destructive technology generated by humans to consolidate their grip on nature but on the other there is also a more ancient technology that is characteristic of indigenous cultures. This technology entails a repetition of formulas and rituals that almost magically connects humans to nature. They are the work of the so called medicine men.

In this respect, as apostrophized by another Christian theorists, Marshall McLuhan, even modern artists when avoiding to become celebrities using the first type of technologies like mass media, they can become like Noahs building arks that could potentially rescue a society that is fully numbed by these technologies (e.g. social media today) and on the verge of a destruction that every technological paradigm brings about. Extrapolating these theories from their dangerous Christian connotation, cultural rewilding uses the more up-to-date metaphor of the lifeboat which is also the one chosen by Pyotr Kropotkin in his book on mutual aid.