Choosing what to attend to is itself the core political and ethical act
Evidence
When we understand our attentional selves to be the sources of value—real value, a contingent, textured, life-giving value, as opposed to the cold arithmetical money-value—we are faced with the difficult task of choosing what to value. That choice, and the messy process by which we go about it, is nothing less than the actual process of ethics and politics. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 276
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines the “ethics and politics” being proposed: it is not abstract deliberation but the concrete activity of valuation.
Related
- Choosing what to value is the actual substance of ethics and politics (similarity 0.95)
- Attention is the defining political and existential question of the current era (similarity 0.82)
- Attention is the faculty by which we constitute social and ethical reality (similarity 0.80)
- Attention functions as the ground for ethics, not merely for personal satisfaction. (similarity 0.79)
- Attention functions as a political economy embedded in specific temporal contexts (similarity 0.78)
- Attention is the substrate of care for self, community, and planet. (similarity 0.78)