The Death of the Attention Economy

He's really capturing the onset of the attention economy and the blight of it on us as individuals throughout this essay. He describes his own generation as ushering out that world towards a society that was fairer, while perhaps mourning the loss of some of its happier aspects. And he says that what was flowing through them wasn't white guilt so much as white euphoria. But it was a very superficial feeling because these guys were rather uneducated. They would have been lost and embarrassed if they had to explain it in intellectual terms.