You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad

Re:You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how ... by roughly on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:44PM (#41323254)

> 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.

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Re:You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how ... by ruined on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:52PM (#41323317)

There could be, but most individuals don't have the agency to freely allocate attention.

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Re:You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how ... by roughly on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:55PM (#41323350)

In 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.”

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Re:You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how ... by DiggyJohnson on Thursday August 22, 2024 @05:19PM (#41324485)

That'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.

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