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That is quite the Wikipedia article.

It’s not often that I diss content, but if there was ever a summary of a topic written that tried to sound like it was a novel idea by labelling everything under the sun, this is it.

Maybe I’m not smart enough to understand it, but honestly after 4 tries I still don’t get what the point is.

Also, the topic of “reflexive” came about in the early to mid 20th century, so for many people here, our parents have always existed in this reflexive modern. That doesn’t mean things have gotten more complex in the last generation




Haha sorry, I understand that reaction to quite a lot of sociological theory.

Personally I find this the easiest simple mental model for reflexive modernity:

"Modernity linearly accelerated change. Reflexive modernity loops back on itself and accelerates the acceleration". So a bit of "singularity is near".

The whole theory itself has quite a bit more baggage, but again I agree, the wikipedia article does not help at all.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89201-2


Honestly the Wikipedia article reads like it was written by someone who doesn’t understand the topic.

The linked page to “reflexive” is much better, FWIW.




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