This is the perennial danger which besets semiotics: what with man being preeminently the sign-using creature, and what with man using signs in everything that he does, semiotics runs the risk of being about everything and hence about nothing.
In his book "Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book," Walker Percy highlights the inherent challenge of semiotics, the study of signs and symbols. He emphasizes that as humans are fundamentally sign users, the field of semiotics could easily become overly broad. This expansive nature risks making it difficult to pinpoint specific meanings or purposes, veering toward the notion that it could encompass everything and ultimately lead to a lack...
