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PaulHouletoday at 2:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

I love his

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_Crisis_(book)

but feel this ponderous two-volume set

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Communicative_Ac...

is thoroughly refuted by our last two decades of experience with electronic communications.


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biggestloutoday at 7:46 PM

Thoroughly refuted? Sorry, but no

jauntywundrkindtoday at 4:50 PM

Perhaps the missing component is that not only is rationality communicable, but so is irrationally.

The memetic material out there has had an incredible and tumultuous era of rapid evolution. Theres been such radical pressure to get better at consuming our attention, at trying to get ideas to spread. The means have perhaps outstripped the Humana ability to communicate & make sense of so much highly weaponized memetic systems.