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Jenny Odell on attention, where we put it, and how it can polarise society

The Sacred

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Introduction

The sacred is a podcast about our deepest values and the stories that shape us, in a deeply polarized age. Every episode i speak to some one who has some kind of public voice or platform. I would gently invite you not to just scroll past those people, looking for the ones that you already feel warm towards. It's extremely easy only to listen deeply to people whom we already agree with. If you listen long enough, you should quite quickly, hear someone not at all like you. The hope is it just gets to a slightly different level of reflection on the kind of values and principles that have been anchor points since time immemorial. And glib, carefully poat, polished answers

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