This chapter is an introduction to the critical aspects of symbolic communication framing our social constructions of transitions and liminal experiences. It discusses the evolutionary potentials and weaknesses inherent in the languaging of Homo symbolicus, the super predator, but not the super carer of Earth. With symbols, the signifier and the signified are related through cultural conventions. Consequently, they are subject to continual reconstructions. This feature, and the combination of digital and analogue aspects make our languaging, central to the human behaviour complex, highly flexible. Languaging opens an infinite universe of meanings, strengthening our creative potentials—but at a price. The chapter comments on Burke’s Definition of Man and underlines that human languaging facilitates strong polarization and our strivings to reach “perfection”. Awareness of the dark side of our symbolic evolution is a precondition to constructive transitions.