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The Sirens Call: How Attention Became The WorldS Most Endangered Resource
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller One Of Barack ObamaS Summer Reading List Picksfrom The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author And Msnbc And Podcast Host, A Powerful WideAngle Reckoning With How The Assault From Attention Capitalism On Our Minds And Our Hearts Has Reordered Our Politics And The Very Fabric Of Our SocietyAn Ambitious Analysis Of How The Trivial Amusements Offered By Online Life Have Degraded Not Only Our Selves But Also Our Politics. New York TimesBrilliant Book . . . Reading It Has Made Me Change The Way I Work And Think. Rachel MaddowA Useful Primer On How Social Media And The Attention Economy Have Warped Our Democracy And Reshaped Our Lives. Barack Obamawe All Feel ItThe Distraction, The Loss Of Focus, The Addictive Focus On The Wrong Things For Too Long. Something Has Changed Utterly: For Most Of Human History, The Boundary Between Public And Private Has Been Clear, At Least In Theory. Now, As Chris Hayes Writes, With The Help Of A Few Tech Firms, We Basically Tore It Down In About A Decade. Hayes Argues That We Are In The Midst Of A Transition Whose Only Parallel Is That Of Labor In The Nineteenth Century: Attention Has Become A Commodified Resource Extracted From Us, And From Which We Are Increasingly Alienated. The Sirens Call Is The BigPicture Vision We Urgently Need To Offer Clarity And Guidance.Sirens Are Designed To Compel Us, And Now They Are Going Off In Our Bedrooms And Kitchens At All Hours Of The Day And Night, Doing The Bidding Of Vast Empires, The Most Valuable Companies In History, Built On Harvesting Human Attention. As Hayes Shares, Now Our Deepest Neurological Structures, Human Evolutionary Inheritances, And Social Impulses Are In A Habitat Designed To Prey Upon, To Cultivate, Distort, Or Destroy That Which Most Fundamentally Makes Us Human. The Sirens Call Is The Book That Snaps Everything Into A Single Holistic Framework So That We Can Wrest Back Control Of Our Lives, Our Politics, And Our Future.
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