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  .''The Sirens' Call''
  .'''How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource'''
  .''Chris Hayes 2025 Beaverton 306.342 HAY''
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== The Sirens' Call ==
=== How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource ===
=== Chris Hayes 2025 Beaverton 306.342 HAY ===
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=== p001 Ch1 The Sirens' Call ===
 .p001 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus | Odysseus]], Circe, and the Sirens
 .p003 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James | William James ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principles_of_Psychology | The Principles of Psychology 1890 ]] ''My experience is what I agree to attend to.''
 .p005 The phones are warbling us to death.
 .p005 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato | Plato's ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(dialogue) | Phaedrus ]] the perils of writing
 .p006 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt | Jonathan Haidt ]] 2024 [[ https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4342761 | The Anxious Generation ]] smart-phones -> depression, anxiety, and self-harm
 .p007 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cohen_(sociologist) | Stanley Cohen ]] 1972 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_Devils_and_Moral_Panics | Folk Devils and Moral Panics ]]
 .p010 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari | Johann Hari ]] 2022 Stolen Focus
 .p016 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein | Naomi Klein ]] 1999 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Logo | No Logo ]]
 .p018 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann | Walter Lippman ]] 1925 [[ https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=The%20Phantom%20Public%20&searchType=title | The Phantom Public ]]

=== p027 Ch2 The Slot Machine and Uncle Sam ===
 .p029 [[ https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-019-01846-w.pdf | No One Knows What Attention Is ]]
 .p030 [[ https://dictionary.apa.org/voluntary-attention | voluntary attention ]] [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo&t=5s | Ball passing and gorilla ]] [[ https://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/ | The Invisible Gorilla book ]] [[ https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?custom_edit=false&query=title%3A(The%20Invisible%20Gorilla)&searchType=bl&suppress=true | WCCLS, Beaverton ]]
 .p031 [[ https://dictionary.apa.org/involuntary-attention | involuntary attention ]] siren, crash of dishes
 .p036 social attention - noticing a mention of your name while focusing on something else
 .p042 Hijacked airliner passenger so bored that he almost fell asleep
 .p042 War is boring . Tim O'Brien . The Things They Carried . YA novel
 .p046 koumiss fermented mare's milk, about 2% alcohol
 .p049 Cable news is a televised siren
 .p050 slot machines, electronic games displacing card tables
 .p051 [[ https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C2133228 | Addiction by Design ]] Natasha Dow Schüll
  .slot addict attentional trance, "I'm not playing to win"
 .p053 Hayes's iPhone [[ https://screentimelabs.com/ | Screen Time ]], 5 hours 16 minutes per day
  .note48 Brian Fung 2013 WaP [[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/13/humankind-has-now-spent-more-time-playing-call-of-duty-than-it-has-existed-on-earth/ | Humankind has now spent more time playing Call of Duty than it has existed on Earth ]]
 .p056 apps designed to engage our social personality
=== p059 Ch3 The Root of Evil ===
 .p063 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society | Original affluent society ]][[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Sahlins | Marshall Sahlins ]]
 .p071 [[ https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Infinite%20Jest&searchType=smart | Infinite Jest ]] Novel 1996 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace | David Foster Wallace ]]
 .p073 boredom's alter ego: distraction
 .p076 Boredom: ratchet of stimulation and diversion - liberation by simply rejecting boredom
 .p078 zoning out opposite of attention [[ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/german-english/zerstreutheit | Zerstreuheit ]][[ https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.459703/page/n407/mode/2up | The Principles of Psychology ]] p404 James
 .p078 [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&type=Advanced&term=How%20to%20Do%20Nothing&relation=ALL&by=TI&term2=Jenny%20Odell&relation2=ALL&by2=AU&bool1=AND&bool4=AND&limit=TOM=bks%20not%20tom=ebk&sort=RELEVANCE&page=0&searchid=1 | How to Do Nothing ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Odell | Jenny Odell ]]
   . https://screentimelabs.com/ manage child screen time
=== p081 Ch4 Social Attention ===
 .p082 Child maltreatment: 74% neglected, 28% physically abused
 .p086 bedroom per family member, 17th century invention
 .p092 [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=4&cn=3194223 | The Giving Tree ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Silverstein | Shel Silverstein ]]
 .p105 boundary between public and private "torn down in about a decade" by a few tech firms
 .p108 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman | Death of a Salesman ]] 1949 [[
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller | Arthur Miller ]]
 .p108 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_guy | Reply guy ]]
=== p115 Ch5 Alienation ===
 .p122 [[ https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?custom_edit=false&query=title%3A(The%20Attention%20Merchants)&searchType=bl&suppress=true | The Attention Merchants ]] 2016 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu | Tim Wu ]]
 .p133 always present smartphones increase supply of attention
 .p142 2020 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News | Fox ]] lost attention to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsmax | Newsmax ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_America_News_Network | One America News ]]
 .p142 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox_News_Network | Fox lost $787M for defaming ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems | Dominion Voting Systems]]
 .p144 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Burnham | Bo Burnham ]] colonization of attention
 .p151 Author ate half a THC gummy and looked at sandwiches on [[ https://www.tiktok.com/en/ | Tiktok ]], algorithm figured out he was stoned
=== p155 Ch6 Dawn of the Attention Age ===
 .p165 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon | Herbert Simon ]] [[ https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2005/DESIGNING%2BORGANIZATIONS%2Bfor%2BInformation-Rich%2Bworld%2B--%2BSImon.pdf | Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World ]]
 .p166 To be an attention conserver ... system must be an information condenser.
 .p167 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs | Steve Jobs ]] "How many things have you said no to?"
 .p169 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_factor_productivity | Total Factor Productivity ]] increased 2%/y 1910-1970; 1994-2004 1%/y, 2004-2014 0.4%/y
 .p172 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Zuboff | Shoshana Zuboff ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capitalism | surveillance capitalism ]]
 .p174 "in its chase for profits, Google has ended up spamming its own users"
  . alternatives [[ https://www.bing.com/ | Bing ]]/[[ https://duckduckgo.com/ | DuckDuckGo ]] [[ https://www.yahoo.com/ | Yahoo ]] [[ https://search.brave.com | Brave ]] [[ https://www.perplexity.ai/ | Perplexity ]] [[ https://metasearx.com/| SearX ]]
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 .p243 ref Naomi Klein [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger:_A_Trip_into_the_Mirror_World | Doppelganger 2023 ]] [[ https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4267644 | Bvtn Lib ]]
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The Sirens' Call

How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Chris Hayes 2025 Beaverton 306.342 HAY


p001 Ch1 The Sirens' Call

p027 Ch2 The Slot Machine and Uncle Sam

p059 Ch3 The Root of Evil

p081 Ch4 Social Attention

p115 Ch5 Alienation

p155 Ch6 Dawn of the Attention Age

p195 Ch7 Public Attention

p251 Ch8 Reclaiming Our Minds

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