Sustained attention inevitably yields awareness of complicity and responsibility

Evidence

In short, it leads to awareness, not only of how lucky I am to be alive, but to ongoing patterns of cultural and ecological devastation around me—and the inescapable part that I play in it, should I choose to recognize it or not. In other words, simple awareness is the seed of responsibility. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 41

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This is the payoff sentence of the whole argument — attention leads to awareness leads to responsibility — and is exactly the hinge the reader needs against the ‘mere withdrawal’ reading. Dense enough to sit with.
• XREF: connects to: Exposition must signal its own complicity through tempo and tentativeness.; Attention always responds to something else and never rests still.; Mindful bidirectional attention produces the critical consciousness Freire described.