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Why You Can’t Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again | Johann Hari

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Is There a Democratic Control Over the Government?

Iwo: We have to fight for our attention and the many factors that are causing it at every level. Government has also been corrupted by big money lobbying, whea reverse citizens ar united h al sorts of things we need to do to re democratize our governments. Iwo: There's an overwhelming public interest in having a huge population who can't focus on anything other than their own interests. So i don't think it would be like doing nothing about pandemic or all sorts of huge threats where people can't focus,. It can't be a coincidence that all over the world we're having a huge crisis in democracy as we'rehaving a collapse in Attention span.

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