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Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource | Chris Hayes
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From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society We all feel it--the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they're us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, "With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade." Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth century: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. The Sirens' Call is the big-picture vision we urgently need to offer clarity and guidance. Because there is a breaking point. Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention. As Hayes writes, "Now our deepest neurological structures, human evolutionary inheritances, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon, to cultivate, distort, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human." The Sirens' Call is the book that snaps everything into a single holistic framework so that we can wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future.
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Erin.Elizabeth10
Erin.Elizabeth10
Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource | Chris Hayes
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This was a very good book! It unpacks the monetization and colonization of our attention, how prone we are becoming to distraction, the difference between attention and connection, how news is spread, and more. I would highly recommend!

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fredthemoose
fredthemoose
Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource | Chris Hayes
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I found this more insightful than I expected. It was not individual strategies for reducing time online or scrolling but instead went into more societal trends and pressures related to monetized attention. He makes some interesting points and I learned a few things.

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Julsmarshall
Julsmarshall
Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource | Chris Hayes
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Really interesting! This nonfiction book from the MSNBC journalist is a spot on treatise on attention, politics, media, and human connection. Great on audio, read by the author. This one made me think!

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RamsFan1963
RamsFan1963
Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource | Chris Hayes
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44/100 I've always enjoyed Chris Hayes' TV show, and this book is very relevant to today's information overload society. Our attention is divided by many sources fighting for our views, twits, posts and likes. As readers, we all know the struggle to maintain our attention, when the cellphone, the internet, and the TV is trying to lure away our attention. Donald Trump is the first president of the "Attention Age", someone pathetically unqualified⬇️

RamsFan1963 in every category except one, he is a master at drawing people's attention to him. 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ #Read2025 2mo
DogMomIrene Is this the guy who hosted The Talking Dead? 2mo
RamsFan1963 @DogMomIrene No that's Chris Hardwick. Chris Hayes hosts All In on MSNBC 2mo
DogMomIrene @RamsFan1963 🤦🏻‍♀️ Yes! I should know that🤣 He‘s one of the anchors there who‘s hit or miss for me. 2mo
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RamsFan1963
RamsFan1963
Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource | Chris Hayes
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I like it when life syncs up with what I'm reading. Yesterday a storm knocked out the power from 7pm until 10am this morning. No TV, no wi-fi, no internet, and once my phone ran down, no ebooks or audiobooks. No distractions at all, just the printed book to read. Is there something wrong with me when I say that I found no distractions very distracting? I tried to concentration on the book, but I found my mind wandering. It's not the book's ⬇️

RamsFan1963 fault, its very entertaining and Keith Laumer is one of my favorite writers, but I found reading without any background noise, of fans and the fridge, harder than normal. 2mo
AnnCrystal Yikes! The unnerving part is not knowing how long it will last for 🙏💫. 2mo
RamsFan1963 @AnnCrystal I suppose that's what was making it hard to concentrate, I kept expecting the power to come back on. Since I've lived in this apt, we've had occasional power outages, but never for very long, a couple of hours. According to the news, the storm knocked down several trees which took power lines with them, so they were up all night fixing things. 2mo
AnnCrystal @RamsFan1963 my apologies, been away from the web. That's was terrible! I hope they were able to fix your neighborhood outage quickly 🥺👍🏼...poor trees. 2mo
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HettyG
HettyG
Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource | Chris Hayes
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You probably already feel a certain way about Chris Hayes. You either find him boyishly charming, cute as a button and nerdily sexy or.... wait what was I talking about? Audio read by the author A+, an excellent analysis of an issue we all know deep down is at the heart of what ails us.

AmyG I‘d be curious as to how many people here even know who he is. 🤣 4mo
Suet624 You forgot earnest. He‘s very earnest. 4mo
Christine 🤣 Great review. 4mo
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