Stolen Focus: The Attention Economy — Why Distraction Is Profitable
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores Stolen Focus by Johann Hari as a systems-level analysis of the modern attention economy.
The discussion examines how technological platforms, economic incentives, workplace pressures, and environmental conditions interact to shape human attention. Rather than viewing distraction as an individual failure, the episode explores the structural systems that increasingly depend on capturing, directing, and monetizing attention.
The analysis includes incentive structures, institutional persistence…
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