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Our whole intellectual/scientific/technological culture is founded upon our ability to focus our attention. And the flipside of focus is blindness. Ignorance.
by swayvil 5y ago
Our whole intellectual/scientific/technological culture is founded upon our ability to focus our attention.
And the flipside of focus is blindness. Ignorance.
One thing is focused upon, seen and controlled with vast depth and clarity. While 1000 other things are obliviated away.
That obliviated part. There's a lot of bad stuff going on there. (And a lot of good stuff too, no doubt)
- Retric 5y agoAttention isn’t binary. Stubbing your toe is a great way to pay a lot of attention to something you normally ignore, but conversely we are paying attention to the lack of pain without it diverting any effort. Intellectual/scientific/technological culture is really the mind sitting around going nothing critical is going on let’s focus on something arbitrary. And if nothing critical happens for long enough you can start to assume that’s just how things are.
- swayvil 5y agoYes, distraction is a thing. And oblivious focus is also a thing. Both are aspects of attention.