The primary bottleneck to progress has shifted from the scarcity of information to the scarcity of attention. We argue that the "Attention Economy" has reached a terminal point of diminishing returns, inducing a "Cognitive Liquidity Crisis" where decision-making is paralyzed by high-entropy noise. This paper proposes a transition to the "Economy of Clarity." We detail a proprietary protocol based on three pillars: Radical Exclusion (The Filter), Epistemic Authority (The Stance), and Narrative Compression (The Synthesis). By analyzing the "Clarity Premium" in asset valuation, we demonstrate that the ability to manufacture silence and structure meaning is the definitive competitive advantage of the 21st century.
Daria Zaitseva (2026) studied this question.