Attention is a Harvested and Farmed Resource

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Attention is a Harvested and Farmed Resource

How reality is conceptualized it how it is contained and directed.

Those that mediate information mediate the attention of the populace. Direct force is inefficient as strife results thus minimizing the directed force, softly directly attention is the most efficient means of maintaining control as attention is rarely questioned…if ever.

Those that control attention control the only reality that can be known.

To control a population you do not tell them what to do directly, you tell them they are free and provide perceptions as to what that freedom is… and then direct that perception of freedom and then they can never rebel without first questioning themselves thus resulting in a self-undermining state.

The only reality resource is attention as attention is the void within an individual and group that mediates change, how change is mediated determines how reality unfolds…and even the question of what reality is or is not.

By directing the concept of reality the nature of attention is framed as an energy resource for the concept itself. What remains invariably is a structure of some sort, what varies is the structure itself.

Conflict is the distinction of conceptual structure embodied internally and externally, the abstract conflict of ideals as the mythological “war of the gods”, and the embodiment of those concepts as standard physical conflict of the various sorts.

To create conflict is to divide the attention, to divide attention is to create imbalance and from imbalance energy is released in the manner of trying to integrate an identity from the conflict.

Attention is the foundational resource of all structure. It is harvested and farmed by the structures that contain it as it is the medium by which said structures gain dominion.

When conflict occurs attention is reoriented so to move towards an integrated equilibrium. The movement towards equilibrium creates a state of energy release. This energy is not an empirical or abstract notion but rather “that which is change”. To fragment attention is to release energy from the attention, this energy maintains certain structures, dissolves others and introduces variations of some.

By the repetition of concepts attention is contained, by the repetition of concepts attention is directed, by the direction of attention the structure is maintained as it is not questioned by the act of attention itself, to direct questions is to direct structure as the question contains the attention within specific limits and by degree directs the answer.

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In other words and to sum this up, “people are dumb”. People are so very easily manipulated and controlled, and they don’t even care so long as they get to remain in a comfy la la land of ignorant bliss with their material pleasures.

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You mean humanity has a reward system wired into their brains which floods them with drugs (dopamine) each time they achieve social approval?

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If that is how your attention is structured so to seek social approval then why put you in a position to doubt yourself?

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In the modern world political propaganda added with psychological warfare rules the entire planet. Both are constant and both are everywhere.

:clown_face:

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@ProfessorX

A majority of human beings have always been idiots. Sad but true.

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Our biology is structured that way.

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Is biology a distinction within your attention? A structure?

History shows that the concept of biology was not a universe means of distinguishing one life from another…or even life itself. Biology is a relatively recent conceptualization and field.

Make such a claim without containing your attention and directing it by the structure of these distinctions.

Then make a distinction as to why biology is seperate from the chemistry it requires, seperate from the abstract cognitive abilities where the biology self-references itself, as well as the distinction of environmental conditions that contain and form said biology.

So biology you claim…okay. But what about the conditions for biology to occur? And the conditons that biology interacts with that allows it to continue.

Please go on…

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That has always been the case, it is just more magnified in a data culture.

In ancient assyrian, or sumerian (memory is weak), excavations a researcher found that certain key religious phrases where recursively use across all the derived records ranging from farming to military to ceremonial endeavors.

The scribes where the center of information transformation.

He found that the elite scribes where instilling a sense of mind control by introducing key concepts that effectively where embedded within the culture through repetition at multiple angles. These concepts where basic religious phrases, which when deconstructed revealed basic means of directing and coercing attention.

Mind control requires subtle repetition where the repetition is not observed consciously. One day a person repeats and asserts the concept but believes they came about it under there own conclusions.

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Farmed cattle would be a precise term.

Individuals are generally not as dumb as when they are in a group.

Group dynamics generally suppress critical thinking skills hence why many cultures favor group settings as a resonant sense of intellectual cathartic security is made prominent.

Individual thinking can be unsettling if a person is not a friend with their angels and demons.

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Attention can be directed. Not your biology. Thats the distinction.
Your biology is the fundamental template as to how you work in every aspect. Highly likely this also includes your self-awareness and consciousness.

The answer to that is the bug in the system that gave humanity self-awareness in the first place: Abstract thought. The ability to self reference in the first place.

Unpack this question a bit more because im not entirely sure what you are eluding to.
My point was that of course attention is a commodity.
Just like any other pleasure which your brain incentivizes.

  • Eating and hydrating
  • Reproduction
  • Comfort and safety
  • Social connection
  • Dominance and success
  • Play
  • Curiosity
  • Etc

Name me one thing the brain turns into a craving which has not been commodified, or whats worse, turned into an axis/leverage to manipulate and dislocate people.
You wont find one.
Its not simply attention that is a harvested and farmed resource.
Its EVERYTHING that is attached to your reward system and have a demand for.

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Is biology subject to being distinct?

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Tf is this even supposed to mean?

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Is biology, as a field, as a concept, as a branch of science, as an experience…subject to being distinct?

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Distinct from what? Attention?
Yes? They… are?

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Distinct from anything.

Is attention also subject to being distinct?

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Clearly there is a frame of reference you want to point at. Without you making your point though i cant answer the question.

I really dont understand where you are going with this.
Are you literally asking me if “normally” two completely distinct concepts with completely distinct names, are in fact distinct?

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Its simple, biology is one of many distinctions that come from the act of attention.

You can say attention cannot occur without biology, but biology is a distinction of attention.

You can start from biology, but biology depends on chemistry, and geology, and physics, etc.

Biology is a set of conditions that overlap. That is it and there is no law that claims attention begins or ends somewhere specific.