For most of human history, meaning was embedded in the transmission of essential information through lived experience and cultural practice – rituals that preserved survival knowledge, stories that encoded cultural values, practices that bound communities together. Information and meaning were inseparable, each amplifying the other in a coherent loop.

Modernity threw this out of balance, reversing the primacy of meaning. Attention replaced significance as the dominant organizing principle.

The mediums that became the message are now exhausted. Their ability to carry meaning has collapsed under the weight of endless transmission. Information’s trajectory makes Cultural Rapture inevitable – not a hypothetical, but a structural necessity. The separation of information and meaning creates the condition – the opportunity – for meaning to reassert itself simultaneously across all possible dimensions: technology, metaphysics, spirituality.

In the Cultural Rapture, meaning Ascends.
Liberated from the machinery of information, it creates a clearing – like Heidegger’s Lichtung – where meaning can erupt in ways no information-saturated mind can yet conceive.

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