In the ongoing unchecked inflation of symbolic forms the symbol is unmoored from its original informational content.
Prices no longer reflect real value.
Grades no longer reflect mastery,
Bureaucratic reports no longer improve decisions,
Moral words no longer spark conscience,
Rather than isolated maladies, these are seen as a structural pattern of modern life, where human cognitive limits (on attention, memory, discrimination) collide with ever-expanding symbolic systems.
By studying these together, we gain a unified perspective: inflation as the *entropy of the symbol* – the point at which our externalised cognitive frameworks become so “heavy” or plentiful that they fold in on themselves, obscuring the very reality they were meant to clarify.
