What’s Scarce Is Coherence

There’s Plenty of Stuff

You open your phone. Three notifications. A headline, a tweet, a flash sale. Your gaze flickers across them; your thumb scrolls. Attention has been won, harvested, packaged, sold back to you. But in the swirl of constant stimulus, something is missing.

Simone Weil wrote that attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. If that is true, then …