The group aspires for this book to catalyze change comparable to Silent Spring

Evidence

What do we hope? That this book becomes a kind of Silent Spring for our era—a document that can galvanize real change in an area of existential urgency. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 29

Categorization

• XREF: Explicit calibration device: Silent Spring (Carson 1962) as the model manifesto that converted expert concern into mass regulatory action — the reader’s own reading purpose (test the manifesto bet) hinges on this ambition. — connects to: A single popular book could crystallize a scattered intellectual network into a movement — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 166
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A single popular book could crystallize a scattered intellectual network into a movement — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 166