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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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