>Anyway, it's not a discussion or discourse. There is an entire generation of young people who understand attention as power, and any engagement at all is just

>Anyway, it's not a discussion or discourse. There is an entire generation of young people who understand attention as power, and any engagement at all is just an enabler. The solution is to form personal networks of intimate relationships based on establishing incremental trust, without permanently recording every second of it, and try to restore some of the Private sphere as an overall effect. That's part of the solution, but it probably isn't enough on its own. In the Soviet Central Europe of the late 60s and early 70s, there were moderately active spheres of private thought sharing samizdat amongst themselves (leading to initiatives like Charter 77, etc.), but one of the major points Václav Havel made in "The Power of the Powerless" is that ultimately people need to be able to express themselves in the public sphere to effect meaningful change.