Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 1.6AD3

[Today’s Lebenswelt is qualitatively different than the Lebenswelt that we evolved in.

The spontaneous order of our current society is composed of a multitude of institutions and organizations.  Each may be regarded as a social construction that, in itself, is a spontaneous order.  Each talks a specialized language.

In “the Lebenswelt that we evolved in”, the spontaneous order was composed of one organization, the band or village culture.

A single referential way of talking supported two symbolic orders, one obvious (sensibly iconic, indexal and symbolic) and one not obvious (nonsensically iconic, indexal and symbolic).]