Symbols That Kill
12 min readApr 16, 2022
Will civilization suffer death by symbolic gesture?
The world we inhabit is too big and complicated for any three pound human brain to understand it all. Symbols are powerful tools for navigating some of that complexity, distilling abstract ideas into easily managed shorthand that helps us feel we’ve got a good handle on them. But the map is not the territory and the menu is not the meal. When we…