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«What am I supposed to think of all this? How am I supposed to think of all this? (…) Many things in there [social media platforms] seem important, but the sum total is nonsense, and it produces not understanding but a dull and stupefying dread.»

«(…) thought and deliberation require not just incubation space (solitude and/or defined context) but incubation time.»

«As the attention economy profits from keeping us trapped in a fearful present, we risk blindness to historical context at the same time that our attention is ripped from the physical reality of our surroundings.»

«When we recognize the ecological nature not only of biotic communities but of culture, selfhood, and even thought – that indeed, consciousness itself arises from the intersection between what's
"inside" and "outside" – it's not just the boundary between self and other that falls away. We're in a position to see past another supposedly insurmountable barrier: the one between the human and the nonhuman.»