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A Crisis of Attention

Paul Doolan attends to our culture of attention demanding.

‘Listen’ is composed of the same letters as ‘silent’. Listening to another person means falling silent while the other speaks, opening yourself up to what they have to communicate. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han describes this as ‘a special receptivity’ (The Disappearance of Rituals, 2020). Kieran Setiya argues that the path to strong relationships comes through cultivating the art of listening; forging new friendships often begins with the simple act of paying attention to the other person (Life is Hard, 2022). Too often, however, we fail to gift the other our attention or our time.

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