The Attention Economy

In the United States, 87% of all stories about COVID were negative. This comes back to the American obsession with advertising, right? That the Americans want to trigger people's attention. So what they do is put out those stories that they know are going to actually get people to freak out. It's going to clickbait, but it's clickbait that actually changes our worldview. If you're absorbing all these negative stories all the time, of course, you're going to feel out there as fucking shit. Yes.