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Making Sense of Social Media

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Nature of Addiction

Sally Kohn: The nature of the problem is everywhere to be seen, but it's surprisingly elusive. She says attention has been a finite resource always and everyone has always been competing for it. But what we really need to look at is what was mediating where that attention went to, she says.Kohn: And I think most people are stuck in that place. Like they just, we have to do a lot of work to bring them into the place of the conversationWhere the emergency becomes salient.

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