Our entire scientific/technological culture is founded upon our ability to focus our attention. To focus on the task at hand. On the puzzle that needs solving.

Our entire scientific/technological culture is founded upon our ability to focus our attention. To focus on the task at hand. On the puzzle that needs solving. To study, think, engineer, etc. We learn to focus in school. People who are good at focusing get good grades and make lots of money. Unfortunately focus has a horrible flipside. To focus is also to ignore. When you focus on one thing you ignore 1000 other things. That 1000 things. That's basically the whole world. Rendered invisible by our wonderful trick of focus. That invisible zone, that's where we dump our shit, where the torture is conducted, where the rotting dying billions reside.