## Metadata - Author: [[David Weinberger]] - Full Title: Everyday Chaos - Category: #books ## Highlights - Over the past few decades, lots of developments outside the scientific realms of Chaos Theory and complex adaptive systems theory have conspired to make the world seem not nearly as neatly understandable as we’d thought for hundreds of years. Many of these developments occurred on a global scale: World War II shook up our faith in the reasonableness of Western cultures. Philosophical existentialism taught a generation that meanings are just our inventions. Feminism has challenged the exaltation of purely analytical thinking as often a male power move. What’s called postmodern philosophy has denied that there is a single reality grounding our differing interpretations of it. Behavioral economics has pointed out just how irrational we are in our behavior; for instance, hearing a lie debunked turns out to set that lie more firmly in our minds