Attention fracking preempts people’s own intentions to seek communal contact

Evidence

The attention frackers care nothing for boundaries. They care about money. And they need your eyeballs, because that’s what they squeeze in their presses. The cash trickles into their vats. Even if you’d really like to get out to meet with your people, the attention economy is getting to you first. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 299

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Everyday gathering groups constitute schools of attention against fracking; Human fracking describes extracting hard-to-reach attention by industrial chemical-like force — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 94; Human fracking reduces persons and relationships to quantifiable commodities. (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Everyday gathering groups constitute schools of attention against fracking; Human fracking describes extracting hard-to-reach attention by industrial chemical-like force — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 94; Human fracking reduces persons and relationships to quantifiable commodities. (+5 more)