Physical reality is the one reference point no one can refuse to share

Evidence

ALL OF THAT said, the reason I suggest the bioregion as a meeting grounds for our attention is not simply because it would address species loneliness, or because it enriches the human experience, or even because I believe our physical survival may depend on it. I value bioregionalism for the even more basic reason that, just as attention may be the last resource we have to withhold, the physical world is our last common reference point. At least until everyone is wearing augmented reality glasses 24/7, you cannot opt out of awareness of physical reality. The fact that commenting on the weather is a cliché of small talk is actually a profound reminder of this, since the weather is one of the only things we each know any other person must pay attention to. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 502

Categorization

• XREF: The weather as universal common attention ties to Odell’s larger attention-as-world-constitution thesis being read against her title.
• QUESTION: Is her ‘last common reference point’ argument undercut by enclosure: those with resources can physically opt out into gated or curated environments?