The problem is that signs and that which they signify have becomes so far removed from one another that Pepe the Frog, The Pope, the OK hand signal and the purp

The problem is that signs and that which they signify have becomes so far removed from one another that Pepe the Frog, The Pope, the OK hand signal and the purple teletubbie can be in a state of superposition with regards to meaning. This is a direct result of our ever increasing mediated existence. The true meaning of a thing is dependent on the actions taken in response, cribbing Wittgenstein to bits. Take a look at the actions people take while interacting with social media. Clicking, scrolling, sitting and staring at a screen while synchronized pixels entertain or enrage. That’s the entirety of the true meaning. Fictions are of course applied on top as the existential dread of being reduced to a servomechanism is too hard to bear. The only solution is a conscious effort to engage in object-level reality and to deny the power of these increasingly amplified messages to form what you would consider truths about the world around you. Is this a broad scale trend or is it just the only 5 videos of X outrage on the planet?