Choosing what to value is the actual substance of ethics and politics

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

• DEFINE: Clarifies the book’s core premise that attention-attention is the source of value, and therefore valuation choice equals ethics/politics.