Matthew CrawfordThinkers

Attention is the faculty through which we encounter the world directly, in most cases it is most one's own. In consumer society it is hijacked by advertising and commercial forces that try to make inroads into our mental space.

Attention is the thing that is most one's own: In the normal course of things, we chose what to pay attention to, and in a very real sense this determines what is real for us, what is actually present to our consciousness.

Consumer society makes inroads into our mental space, hijacking attention, the faculty through which we encounter the world directly.

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Silence is a luxury good in consumer society, hijacked as it is by advertising and commercial forces that make inroads into our mental space.