Everyday observation can substitute for pending scientific proof of attention harm

Evidence

How do you feel? What about your friends? Look around. See anything odd? Like, everyone staring at a device, and nobody talking? Nobody actually seeing each other? Or, for that matter, the world? Or anything but a stream of “content” that is continuously monetizing their consciousness? — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 112

Categorization

• SEED: The rhetorical pivot from epidemiological proof to felt, observable evidence is itself a manifesto technique worth dissecting.
• XREF: connects to: Waiting for proof of attention-extraction harms risks acting too late — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 103; Scientific precision can block, not enable, deeper understanding of attention — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 142; Precautionary action against attention extraction is warranted before causal proof arrives (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Waiting for proof of attention-extraction harms risks acting too late — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 103; Scientific precision can block, not enable, deeper understanding of attention — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 142; Precautionary action against attention extraction is warranted before causal proof arrives (+1 more)