Repair lag
The delay between destabilization and effective correction.
Glossary
Repair crisis
A provisional selected-domain diagnosis asking whether multiple defined repair episodes show pressure-repair mismatches; not a conclusion that all repair loops fail together.
Substrate
A background condition that makes visible systems possible.
Substrate depletion
The drawdown of background capacities faster than replenishment.
Coordination failure
The inability of systems to align action across different codes and time horizons.
Functional differentiation
The separation of society into systems such as law, markets, politics, science, media, and family.
Reality mediation
The way technical systems shape what appears real, important, visible, and authoritative.
Synthetic reality capture
Manipulation of public reality through plausible synthetic evidence and visibility systems.
Verification burden
The labor required to determine whether content, claims, or evidence are authentic.
Truth infrastructure
Institutions and practices that certify public reality.
Meaning market
A pluralized environment where individuals assemble meaning from many competing sources.
Meta-spirituality
Spiritual practice assembled across traditions, technologies, self-development, therapy, ecology, and aesthetics.
Conspirituality
Overlap between alternative spirituality and conspiracy belief.
Reproductive agency
The real freedom to have the number of children one wants, including none, fewer, later, or more.
Care substrate
The practical and emotional labor that reproduces persons and communities.
Life script
A culturally available narrative for sequencing adulthood, work, partnership, care, and identity.
Future confidence
The felt credibility of building a long-term life in a stable world.
Attention extraction
The conversion of human attention into behavioral data, engagement, advertising, or influence.
Policy-symbol substitution
A frontier hypothesis that visible symbolic action may causally displace a specified material repair under declared conditions.
Public learning loop
The cycle of claim, evidence, critique, revision, and institutional correction.