i don't disagree with the claim that the problem seems unchanged even as the geometry of the medium has changed quite a lot: i am less certain about the claim that, because the problem seems unchanged (as the geometry of the medium has changed quite a lot), the causes of (and hence solution to) the problem are unchanged, and hence not really related to structure -- intuitively this seems quite unlikely to me, unless you reach for quite clumsy and overarching sociology

why are people bad at understanding each other's responses? because they come to the conversation with the wrong skills? (probably somewhat true, but more so now than when? and is this just a rockwrite issue?); because the structure is not set up to help? (an editor's solution: may be wrong, but it's how i'm trained to tinker); because rockwrite is self-selecting, and skews away from logic, patience, or whatever else it maybe be obtains in science or law or history or whatever? (= clumsy and overarching sociology?)