Theory is too kind a word for this stuff. It's theory like critical theory is theory. Sure, there have been massive changes in social organization that have ac

Theory is too kind a word for this stuff. It's theory like critical theory is theory. Sure, there have been massive changes in social organization that have accompanied changes in media. That doesn't say much though. Those changes compound and interact in unpredictable, chaotic ways. We like seeing patterns so we come up with stories about how we're either reverting to some imagined mean or how we're converging on another.