Reading stands as a great mode of human attention that the frackaverse erodes.

Evidence

Are you still out there? Reading this book? You have found a little bit of sanctuary. After all, reading itself is truly one of the GREAT modes of human attention, one of the most powerful ways we settle our minds into synchrony with minds of others. Funny how bad the frackaverse has been for reading, eh? — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 362

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The reflexive move—a book about attention loss quietly observing that its reader just sustained focused reading—could seed a metafictional device where a book literally heals the attention it diagnoses.
• ADDENDUM: Pairs with the sanctuary program: reading as a portable, found sanctuary complements the instrumental sanctuary carving in ‘On Sacrifice’-style ritual logic and the ‘Trees as Infrastructure’ living-structure theme.
• XREF: connects to: Reading can become a proactive act that transforms both object and reader — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 396; Literature’s demand for depth enables more measured appreciation of others.; Education and knowledge are reified forms of accumulated attention — Michael H. Goldhaber, The Attention Economy and the Net, 13 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Reading can become a proactive act that transforms both object and reader — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 396; Literature’s demand for depth enables more measured appreciation of others.; Education and knowledge are reified forms of accumulated attention — Michael H. Goldhaber, The Attention Economy and the Net, 13 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Human fracking extracts attentional capacities as industry once extracted physical ones. #expands (0.92) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 458
• Reading can become a proactive act that transforms both object and reader #complicates (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 396