[Unedited] Oliver Burkeman with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is There a Duty to Be Informed?
There used to be this kind of duty of the citizen to eno to be informed. But that was also in a world of scarcity and not limitlessness, where you had to do some work to find the news. And i think part of the reason for that is that these attentional technologies give us a feeling of acting on it - even just by commenting or retweating. There's this feeling that you're somehow doing your bit, or participating, right? Absolutely. I think it its specially difficult because probably nobody who is a spending their whole day distracted by celebrity gossip is under any illusions that this is somehow some high duty ofcit ship in a democracy that they're performing.
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