The Economics of Attention and the Scarcity of Focus: How Systems Exploit Attentional Capacity and Manufacture Distraction
How Satirists Address the Political Economy of Human Attention
Attention Economy: How Systems Commodify the Capacity to FocusScandals proliferate at calculated pace; legal dramas consume cognitive resources diverting from structural analysis; infrastructure failure becomes entertainment. Attention becomes scarce resource systems exploit. Satire treating distraction seriously reveals political economy of attention control.SOURCE