I know I've seen some screeds, here, about "postmodernism" and it's unhinging
belief from truth, though I probably can't reconstruct them. In any case, along
those lines comes this opinion piece:
Will "post-truth" politics be capitalism's undoing?
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/03/capitalism
I think the point is that organizations can't achieve goals if there is no
overlap in meaning of the goals and mechanisms for achieving the goals. Even
if there are a few shared concepts, like money, that's not enough to explain
why a transaction would be arranged in the first place -- two age
