Law, Business, and Society 9th Edition by Tony McAdams

Exercise 7

Colorado School of Law Professor Pierre Schlag, summarizing the central theme raised by Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover in their book The Death of Discourse:
Stated most broadly, the predicament is this: with the perfection of communications technology, the refinement of capitalist rationality, and the intensification of marketcreated desire, the resulting culture is one that renders its own ostensible steering mechanism-namely, reasoned discourse-impossible. This broad scale rendition of the predicament is quite bleak, for there is no exit; everyone is included. We are all living in a culture that is, quite literally, doing itself in, mindlessly devoting itself to frivolous self-amusement: the unbridled pursuit of thrills, chills, titillations, fun, and ultimately, death. 41
Do you agree with the argument that reasoned discourse is now impossible in our culture of advanced communications and obsessive, market-induced desire for pleasure Explain.