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Re:Ask HN: What is a quote that permanently changed the way ... by boonsuan on Monday December 25, 2023 @05:51AM (#38761542)
Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way. The fact that a place is special to some because of its great peace and beauty may, by that very fact, make it for another a resource to exploit, in such a way that its peace and beauty are destroyed. Attention has consequences.

— Iain McGilchrist, The Master and his Emissary (2009)

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