Your thoughts?

I feel like my attention is bad now compared to where it was… or is possibly still getting worse… Honestly, what a bother… I deal with a lot, C-PTSD and ADHD, both of which hurt my attention. The attention economy compounds it further. Now I am less mentally than I could be or so it seems.

What do you think? Video is 25 minutes long so not too long, imho.

  • Makan@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    To be honest, sometimes I feel that the capitalist backlash against inattentiveness is basically promoting drudgery (overwork without rest), shame, and basically attacks people for “quiet-quitting.”

    Is there a socialist backlash to this?

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      14·
      2 days ago

      The capitalist system’s promotion of a culture of obsession with constant productivity, overwork and shaming relaxation or idleness as “laziness” is a big part of why attention spans have deteriorated. We are constantly being told that if we are not always doing something valuable that we are wasting our time. Even leisure time is being judged by how many experiences you make and it becomes a sort of competition to show off for others on social media. This makes people very restless and anxious and unable to just sit calmly and quietly for extended periods of time without constantly worrying about how they could or should be doing something “productive”. The fact that there is also a constant financial pressure put on people to constantly have to hustle and make money in some way in order to just survive only compounds on this.