Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 1.6AD2

[An Archaeology of the Fall provides a key point.

During our evolution, the way we talked generated two symbolic orders, one sensical (practical) and one nonsensical (social construction).  These symbolic orders belonged to the spontaneous order of band or village life.  What we call “culture” existed as an adaptation to the spontaneous orders of ecology and environment.  Culture was adaptive.

Today, humanity is embedded in many specialized symbolic orders due to our current way of talking: speech alone talk.  Social constructions are generated by projecting referentiality into these specialized languages.

Our world is filled with a multitude of social constructions.   These social constructions compose the organizations that we contextualize as institutions.  They generate the artifacts that we attend to in our daily lives.

These organizations and artifacts participate in higher level spontaneous orders, such as the market. The market is adaptive.]