Capitalism thrives on myopia and dissatisfaction, which taking back attention undermines.

Evidence

These aspects, taken together, suggest to me the revolutionary potential of taking back our attention. To capitalist logic, which thrives on myopia and dissatisfaction, there may indeed be something dangerous about something as pedestrian as doing nothing: escaping laterally toward each other, we might just find that everything we wanted is already here. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 43

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘escaping laterally’ image is the seed of what a non-withdrawal defense of doing nothing would look like — a move toward each other, not away.
• XREF: Lateral escape toward each other connects to the reader’s standing interest in silent/busy-waiting spaces and mutual inattention = shared attention.