Culture and Democracy Book

The first half was a promising summary of historical theoretical developments, the second half was a confused mess of misguided fumblings using a mismatched toolset to speak about subjects for which we already have robust theoretical and technical groundwork (for example turn taking and pragmatics in linguistics, evolutionary socio-linguistic theories on the development of language, cognitive and neuroscience explanations for language processing and brain structure). it often fell into the fallacy of shifting from one scope or level of analysis to another without reframing the discourse, and kept falling into the rabbit hole of going further and further into tangential uncharted territories/outlining "unsolved mysteries" rather than providing frameworks for discussing the phenomena it initially set out to discuss within reasonable bounds of the subject. very underwhelming given the dramatic orwellian setup of the hermeneutic theory of communication pitched in the middle of the book.