I dunno; “philosophy”, at least, doesn’t seem to be about discussing the rules of the human club, or maybe it’s discussing a very specific part of the rules (but then, so is Maths!). Family gossip and stand-up comedy seem much closer to “discussing the rules of the human club”.
I dunno; “philosophy”, at least, doesn’t seem to be about discussing the rules of the human club, or maybe it’s discussing a very specific part of the rules (but then, so is Maths!). Family gossip and stand-up comedy seem much closer to “discussing the rules of the human club”.
Going meta is the quick win (in the social competition) for cultural discourse, though, c.f. postmodernism.