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The attention age – secular sirens & salvation

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[Draft 3-24-2025]

Pay attention!

You’re at a cocktail party … or maybe in a social setting with your family … your attention is selective – like moving a spotlight around a stage, or tuning between foreground & background channels. Did you notice the person dressed in a gorilla costume walk by in the distance? [4]

Others want your attention. Sirens are calling you.

You want attention. Thrive on such attention.

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… the ability to grab the attention of the consumer is more important than the actual product or service offered. … we will forever be invested in [hunger for] other people paying attention to us. – Chris Hayes [1]

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When is enough enough – any way small is beautiful?

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How can constantly chasing more make you feel poor?

I was reminded recently of the book Small Is Beautiful. Does its economic philosophy still pertain to today’s world?

  • To a landscape of scale, wherein the business model of “bigger is better” rules. With mass speech, mass reach, mass marketing. Without any “enough is enough.”
  • To a contemporary context which (in some ways) operates as if people do not really matter. With our personal data just another commodity in commerce.
  • To a political culture infused with the rhetoric of makers vs. takers [1].
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