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The power of attention in a world of distraction
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Problem of Attention and Distraction in Digital Culture
The opposite of being attentive in the way we're describing now is almost what we tend to do, which is give ourselves over to distraction or diversion. I like that you've mentioned Simone Bey a couple of times. She's in my opinion, a criminally underappreciated 20th century French philosopher and someone I think of really as a moral genius. The question is, what is it that we want to be distracted or diverted from? Yeah. Is it loneliness? Is it this sense of truly being alone with their own thoughts? God forbid?"
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