Editing Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making (section)

There has been a breakdown in the ''Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making''. Traditionally we used institutions to guide our collective sense-making, but this is no longer the case in the media landscape – so sense-making is no longer close to fully ''communal''. Walter Cronkite was not always telling the truth, but what he said was a close approximation of the national consciousness and shared belief structure as a complex for the country to function upon, but this does not exist in the current media landscape – so it is no longer ''semi-reliable''.

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''...there was enough complex for us to function as a country and I think that has gone away. So I think that this (our loss of Semi-Reliable Communal Sense-making) is the parent of the crisis which I increasingly think of as, what I call it is: [[The N^2 Revolution|The No-Name Revolution]] or [[The N^2 Revolution|The N-squared revolution]]. We are in some sort of new regime which doesn't look like any revolution we have seen before. It's much less physically violent, so far. It is digitally extremely violent. And it has to do with the fact that [[Semi-reliable Communal Sense-making|we can't make sense of things communally at some semi-reliable level]].''

- '''Eric Weinstein''' January 5, 2018, on [[The Intellectual Dark Web with Eric Weinstein and Ben Shapiro (Audio Content)|Sam Harris #112]]
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