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Why we can't pay attention anymore
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is the Assault on Attention a Crisis?
When you can't focus, i think about periods of my own life when i've struggled to focus. It's like you become a kind of stump of yourself. You're just a diminished thing. A society that can't pay attention to problems together is one that can't solve its crises. We would not be able to summon the collective attention. The ozone layer crisis happened because ordinary people banded together and pressured their politicians to act. And as a result, the ozone layer is now healing.
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