Your mind is a weapon
That's not being cute
The point of the attention economy is to take this weapon away from you.
Resist
Let's discuss how; how to weaponize your mind.
Reading irony is a slow cognitive operation. To recognize it, a reader must parse the surface reading, hold it in working memory while scanning for contextual incongruency, retrieve background info about the author, genre, themes, and the situation, and then resolve the tension between between surface presentation in favor of the non-literal meaning
None of this is cognitively demanding for a practiced reader. But what it does require is a deliberate deceleration - a moment where you resist the impulse to react what is in front of you to instead hold it in suspension against what you already know.
The attention economy is a machine to eliminate that moment. The feed is designed so that the cost of moving to the next moment is always nothing and the reward for moving on is immediate. This cognitive interaction trained across a billion interactions every day shapes a collective behavior; read, react, move.
The step where you hold the surface reading in suspension and interrogate it against context is exactly the step this system selects against. The feed does not wait.
We are exposed to so much information at all times that we're trained to just react.
That's the whole point of the modern media ecosystem. It is a feature not a bug to be stuck in the eternal now with no contextual relevance between bits of information.
Your minds can consume and react without any critical evaluation.
People in this mode of consciousness, their perceptions do not reflect reality. It is a substitute reality they live in - one that generates a simulation consisting exclusively of media events referring only to other media events. This media does not represent the political world. It is the political world.
If we are not reflecting and criticizing and only reacting, then there's no time taken to compare these representations of the world with the world itself.
It all comes down to reading. The critical thinking skills and methodological approach to information is a full on arsenal against the tools designed to dumb you down into an obedient consumer.
Disciplined reading has always been a crucial step in revolutionary practice.
Read theory. Read fiction. Pause. Reflect.
The skills you gain will guide you where to place meaningful action.
Ours is not an ideology. It is an intuition.
That's not being cute
The point of the attention economy is to take this weapon away from you.
Resist
Let's discuss how; how to weaponize your mind.
Reading irony is a slow cognitive operation. To recognize it, a reader must parse the surface reading, hold it in working memory while scanning for contextual incongruency, retrieve background info about the author, genre, themes, and the situation, and then resolve the tension between between surface presentation in favor of the non-literal meaning
None of this is cognitively demanding for a practiced reader. But what it does require is a deliberate deceleration - a moment where you resist the impulse to react what is in front of you to instead hold it in suspension against what you already know.
The attention economy is a machine to eliminate that moment. The feed is designed so that the cost of moving to the next moment is always nothing and the reward for moving on is immediate. This cognitive interaction trained across a billion interactions every day shapes a collective behavior; read, react, move.
The step where you hold the surface reading in suspension and interrogate it against context is exactly the step this system selects against. The feed does not wait.
We are exposed to so much information at all times that we're trained to just react.
That's the whole point of the modern media ecosystem. It is a feature not a bug to be stuck in the eternal now with no contextual relevance between bits of information.
Your minds can consume and react without any critical evaluation.
People in this mode of consciousness, their perceptions do not reflect reality. It is a substitute reality they live in - one that generates a simulation consisting exclusively of media events referring only to other media events. This media does not represent the political world. It is the political world.
If we are not reflecting and criticizing and only reacting, then there's no time taken to compare these representations of the world with the world itself.
It all comes down to reading. The critical thinking skills and methodological approach to information is a full on arsenal against the tools designed to dumb you down into an obedient consumer.
Disciplined reading has always been a crucial step in revolutionary practice.
Read theory. Read fiction. Pause. Reflect.
The skills you gain will guide you where to place meaningful action.
Ours is not an ideology. It is an intuition.
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