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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus
Modern Wisdom
You're Igniting My Inner Er Activist
We are not mediaeval peasants begging at the court of king zuckeberg for a few little crumbs of attention from his table. We own our own minds, and we can take them back from the fuckes who've stolen them. I get really worried about cruel optimism, because am, i thinki, i think it fucks people over. If you hadn't here on your pocost i think you might have done that to me. You're igniting my inner er activist. Eause at the moment, i do think we're in quite a victim e mi, and set about attention. It's a way of challenging our self conception.
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