{"id":11971,"date":"2022-03-05T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11971"},"modified":"2022-03-05T19:11:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T02:11:32","slug":"i-did-it-for-the-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/05\/i-did-it-for-the-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I did it for the attention.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2022\/03\/americans-focus-attention-span-threat-democracy\/626556\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Great Fracturing of American Attention<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Why resisting distraction is one of the foundational challenges of this moment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/megan-garber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Megan Garber<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/mpbz7PIASELovz2Yr87Aldf4tlE=\/0x0:2400x1350\/960x540\/media\/img\/mt\/2022\/03\/attention_eceonomy\/original.jpg\" alt=\"A coiled cable nestled inside the silhouette of an eye\"\/><figcaption><em>Adam Maida \/ The Atlantic<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, as Delta Flight 1580 made its way from Utah to Oregon, Michael Demarre approached one of the plane\u2019s emergency-exit doors. He removed the door\u2019s plastic covering, a federal report of the events\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-or\/pr\/portland-man-charged-after-attempting-open-emergency-exit-portland-bound-flight\">alleges<\/a>, and tugged at the handle that would release its hatch. A nearby flight attendant, realizing what he was doing, stopped him. Fellow passengers spent the rest of the flight\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/crime\/2022\/02\/man-accused-of-trying-to-push-open-emergency-door-on-plane-flying-to-portland.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">watching him<\/a>\u00a0to ensure that he remained in his seat. After the plane landed, investigators asked him the obvious question: Why? COVID vaccines,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/transportation\/2022\/02\/15\/delta-passenger-emergency-door-vaccines-demarre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he told an agent<\/a>. His goal, he said, had been to make enough of a scene that people would begin filming him. He\u2019d wanted their screens to publicize his feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I did it for the attention<\/em>: As explanations go, it\u2019s an American classic. The grim irony of Demarre\u2019s gambit\u2014his lawyer has not commented publicly on the incident\u2014is that it paid off. He made headlines. He got the publicity he wanted. I\u2019m giving him even more now, I know. But I mention him because his exploit serves as a useful corollary. Recent years have seen the rise of a new mini-genre of literature: works arguing that one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2021\/08\/will-pandemic-fatigue-change-how-we-process-disasters\/619858\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">many emergencies<\/a>\u00a0Americans are living through right now is a widespread crisis of attention. The books vary widely in focus and tone, but share, at their foundations, an essential line of argument: Attention, that atomic unit of democracy, will shape our fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2022\/03\/americans-focus-attention-span-threat-democracy\/626556\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Atlantic<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Atlantic The Great Fracturing of American Attention Why resisting distraction is one of the foundational challenges of this moment By\u00a0Megan Garber Last month, as Delta Flight 1580 made its way from Utah to Oregon, Michael Demarre approached one of the plane\u2019s emergency-exit doors. He removed the door\u2019s plastic covering, a federal report of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}