"...this global project of industrialized persuasion is now the dominant business model and design logic of the internet.

To date, the problems of “distraction” have been minimized as minor annoyances. Yet the competition for attention and the “persuasion” of users ultimately amounts to a project of the manipulation of the will.

We currently lack a language for talking about, and thereby recognizing, the full depth of these problems.

At individual levels, these problems threaten
to frustrate one’s authorship of one’s own life.

At collective levels,
they threaten to frustrate the authorship of the story of a people and obscure the common interests and goals that bind them together, whether that group is a family, a community, a country, or all of humankind.

In a sense, these societal systems have been short-circuited. In doing so, the operation of the will – which is the basis of the authority of politics – has also been short-circuited and undermined."

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#Book #Quote -
Stand Out of Our Light - #Freedom and #Resistance in the
#Attention #Economy

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