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> The pinnacle of human attention cannot be directed at everything, everywhere, all at once. We have to focus our attention on a limited subset of arts and purs
by roughly 2y ago
> The pinnacle of human attention cannot be directed at everything, everywhere, all at once. We have to focus our attention on a limited subset of arts and pursuits, where discernment will always be high, and settle everywhere else.
There's 8 billion of us. There's more than enough human attention to go around.
- ruined 2y agoThere could be, but most individuals don't have the agency to freely allocate attention.
- roughly 2y agoIn the words of Stephen Jay Gould, “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoThat's not as much attention as to cover everything we can direct our attention at. This is so obvious to me that it almost seems like a tautology. More so, there being enough attention to go around is tangential to whether the sum of our attention colors in all the space.