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What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction? (www.newyorker.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In a sense, what attention alarmists seek is protection from a competition that they're losing.

Mirror: https://archive.is/2025.01.26-091647/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/27/the-sirens-call-chris-hayes-book-review

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

You're not missing much. The author rambles for many, many paragraphs, and I don't use that word lightly. It reads like a college essay, where the goal is to produce an X-page paper, so they just cram as many quotes, attributions, and subjects as they can to pad the length.

It feels like they're trying to go for a Pulitzer, but it's just reactionary garbage that rambles on and on, jumping from topic to topic, taking quotes from scientists and philosophers from antiquity—as if their ideas were still valid today simply because they once existed. The author appears to have a lack of attention, methinks...

Also they appear to be an ADHD denialist, so fuck them.