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The Sirens' Call

p001 Odysseus, Circe, and the Sirens
p003 William James The Principles of Psychology 1890 My experience is what I agree to attend to.
p005 The phones are warbling us to death.
p005 Plato's Phaedrus the perils of writing
p006 Jonathan Haidt 2024 The Anxious Generation smart-phones -> depression, anxiety, and self-harm
p007 Stanley Cohen 1972 Folk Devils and Moral Panics
p010 Johann Hari 2022 Stolen Focus
p016 Naomi Klein 1999 No Logo
p018 Walter Lippman 1925 The Phantom Public

p029 No One Knows What Attention Is
p030 voluntary attention Ball passing and gorilla The Invisible Gorilla book WCCLS, Beaverton
p031 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 Addiction by Design Natasha Dow Schüll
- slot addict attentional trance, "I'm not playing to win"
p053 Hayes's iPhone Screen Time, 5 hours 16 minutes per day
- note48 Brian Fung 2013 WaP Humankind has now spent more time playing Call of Duty than it has existed on Earth
p056 apps designed to engage our social personality

p063 Original affluent society Marshall Sahlins
p071 Infinite Jest Novel 1996 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 Zerstreuheit The Principles of Psychology p404 James
p078 How to Do Nothing Jenny Odell
- https://screentimelabs.com/ manage child screen time