Modern communication systems sustain reliability despite lacking shared moral grounding.

Evidence

The differentiated media of communication, their language and their symbols, bring new sorts of risk and thus pose a new type of problem in regard to trust. It has now become apparent that communication is made by people and affects people, but it no longer rests on an unchanging view of what is right or on close personal acquaintance. How is it that, in spite of this, such communications are reliable, and their reduction of complexity can be trusted? — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 209

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Clear consensus communication is an always-deferred fantasy projected by the system — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 950