Successful refusal can derail the powerful person’s everyday momentum

Evidence

Not just that, but each subsequent refusal produces more and more extreme variations of the same phenomenon: the lawyer, who is often in a rush going about his business, is stopped dead in his tracks, grasping for sense and meaning like Wile E. Coyote having run off a cliff. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 258

Categorization

• XREF: The Wile E. Coyote image resonates with how attention-driven world-constitution gets disrupted when the temporal frame breaks — connects to the book’s core theme. — connects to: Ordinary people’s refusal can topple even entrenched systems of power — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1661; Refusals interrupt unquestioned cycles and become memorable — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 243
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ordinary people’s refusal can topple even entrenched systems of power — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1661; Refusals interrupt unquestioned cycles and become memorable — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 243