Yup the current architecture makes everything about attention. It reduces the difference between who is loosing their mind and who is reaching enlightenment to

Yup the current architecture makes everything about attention. It reduces the difference between who is loosing their mind and who is reaching enlightenment to 0. So everyone living inside that super structure can't tell anything anymore. Trump doesn't care whether he is right or wrong but whether he is capturing attention. His chameleonic loyalty (to Israel, to Russia, to Evangelicals, to Bannon, to Carlson, to Kanye, to whoever) isn’t strategic in the traditional sense it’s opportunistic in the Attention Economy sense: Who will give me the most juice right now? And he became president using this strategy so everyone follows it. So this generates all kinds of confusion. We need changes that shift the focus away from purely attention monetization and weaponization. But the rationalists are all like the other guy is monetizing and weaponizing things so I shall too.