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“Watch the end credits on a movie on Netflix or HBO. It’s good discipline for lengthening your attention span! Look at all those names scrolling by. All those people who aren’t stars made their rent by working to bring you that show.”
― Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

“Facebook and other BUMMER companies are becoming the ransomware of human attention. They have such a hold on so much of so many people’s attention for so much of each day that they are gatekeepers to brains.”
― Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

“In September 2016, the influential blogger and commentator Andrew Sullivan wrote a 7,000-word essay for New York magazine titled “I Used to Be a Human Being.” Its subtitle was alarming: “An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

“Your ability to know the world, to know truth, has been degraded, while the world’s ability to know you has been corrupted. Politics has become unreal and terrifying, while economics has become unreal and unsustainable: two sides of the same coin.”
― Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now