Beyond Meaning

Since the emergence of meaning through symbols, slowly more and more complex symbols and meanings arrived and gradually filled the database of the collective human experience.

Especially in recent decades, this database has experienced exponential growth via the emergence of digital data, and the collective reservoir has become unimaginably large. It has come to a point where we have moved beyond meaning, as there is no longer a collective understanding of reality. Thus, we have begun to live in our own individual echo chambers.

The symbols are still there, but the meanings we derive are more and more subjective. Only time will tell what the next evolution at this stage will be, and if we will find our way back to a collective understanding.