Recreational attention activities can be reclaimed from extraction without abandoning them

Evidence

Are these activities frackable? They certainly are! But what matters is what can be done with what we have, and like the clownfish that have learned to live inside the tendrils of the anemones that would eat them, the Attention Activists who learn to thrive inside the poison arms of the beast are a lesson for us all! — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 409

Categorization

• XREF: The clownfish-within-anemones image parallels the prefigurative strategy of building sanctuaries inside hostile systems, resonant with ‘Parable of the Sower’s enclave-building for readers of that book. — connects to: Individual remedies reinforce the attention-extraction regime rather than escaping it — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 216; Diverse attentional practices form a common arsenal against attention extraction — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 436; Attention extraction unjustly commodifies the self and requires collective rather than individual remedy (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Individual remedies reinforce the attention-extraction regime rather than escaping it — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 216; Diverse attentional practices form a common arsenal against attention extraction — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 436; Attention extraction unjustly commodifies the self and requires collective rather than individual remedy (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Individual remedies reinforce the attention-extraction regime rather than escaping it #complicates (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 216
• The fix for attention problems is collective attentional freedom, not individual span #complicates (0.78)
• Attention extraction unjustly commodifies the self and requires collective rather than individual remedy #complicates (0.75)