Human fracking reduces persons and relationships to quantifiable commodities.

Evidence

Human fracking is bad for people, and for politics. It reduces our very beings (and our relationships) to that which can be quantified, bought, and sold. All this is the triumph of a catastrophic lie about what it means to be human. But deceit and exploitation are never inevitable. To push back, we need more than isolated, individual efforts; what we need is a movement of collective resistance. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 32

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: The claim that deceit and exploitation are never inevitable parallels the reader’s existing line on collective remedies in One Square Inch of Silence — noise/attention fixes fail when individual, not systemic.

Related

• Attention extraction is a historical contingent result of human choice (similarity 0.83)
• Attention extraction reduces people to quantifiable commodities and demands collective remedy. (similarity 0.83)
• Human fracking parallels industrial extraction of physical labor (similarity 0.81)
• The dispute over attention is ultimately an argument about what constitutes our humanity (similarity 0.81)
• An industry has channeled and commodified human attention like fracking extracts natural resources. (similarity 0.80)
• Attention extraction operates at multiple scales demanding a many-zone coalition (similarity 0.79)
• Attention can be quantitatively measured and thereby bought and sold. (similarity 0.78)
• Precautionary action against attention extraction is warranted before causal proof arrives (similarity 0.78)
• Inner attention damage blocks the political work needed to fix outer environmental damage. (similarity 0.78)
• Human fracking describes extracting hard-to-reach attention by industrial chemical-like force (similarity 0.78)