![]() By itself, in itself, I don’t think this is hugely problematic. There are countless people who are completely immersed in these artificial realities. How many people are addicted to Facebook, or Snapchat, or Reddit, or any of the countless attention-grabbers in the tech-sphere that we have embraced uniformly as a culture? Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “The medium is the message,” meaning that anything transmitting information will create a symbiotic relationship with the receivers: namely, us. The attention economy is something anyone familiar with marketing is well-versed on. This is particularly problematic as we live in an age where people are consumed by technology. If we’re not aware of where our attention is going, then we are not in control of our own time on this Earth. What we focus on in the now is all we can be conscious of. Functionally, I see them as the same thing. By extension, we can say our attention is equally as valuable. After all we don’t get more sand in our hourglass once it’s gone, it’s gone for good. We can say our time is our most valuable resource. I want to take some time to bring awareness of one such phenomena that is central to running the world from a human perspective. What I mean is, although there are innumerous processes happening every moment within society, there are clear trends in how things work. But, despite being in the midst of an incredible mind-boggling soup of all sorts of parts and pieces, there are overarching laws and patterns which can be defined at various levels of magnification. ![]() ![]() Maddeningly chaotic, if you spend the time trying to piece it all together. Civilization is an amalgamation of people, who are amalgamations of cells, which are amalgamations of molecules, and it’s turtles all the way down. So, the world’s a complex place, right? I don’t need to tell you that. ![]()
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