Resistance must use the same platforms that extract attention

Evidence

We want to be wary of this dynamic, but we won’t dismiss every shared experience that’s been sucked up, pixelated, and tapped out by the frackers. We work in this world—the one utterly permeated by society-scale digital platforms. We are going to defeat the human frackers in THIS world, not some fantasy world where everyone spends all day making sourdough bread or walking along the beach. Like any underground resistance, we will use the very tools that are harming us to effect the revolution. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 325

Categorization

• XREF: Deliberately rejects techno-purist retreat—contrasts with the ‘sanctuaries’ idea elsewhere in the book—and anticipates the reader testing whether such platforms can genuinely be repurposed. — connects to: The response to attention exploitation must be affirmative vision, not mere resistance.