The Problem of Attention Coordination in a Social Environment

I think pretty often a thing that I find myself doing is insisting that something is a paradox where the people the rest of the people at the table are like, no, that's not a paradox. And I'm trying to make them be confused about it. It's sustained attention because you're sustaining attention to it and you aren't letting them turn away from it. A thesis that will grab the attention of a community will often be a thesis that as we asserted by someone with status in the group who seems to be overstating their case. People often do this on purpose. They exaggerate a claim to just the right degree so that they're tempting people to respond and rebut them