Attention Quotes
The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
"The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions."— Aldous Huxley
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Meaning of this quote
Public distraction can weaken attention even without a simple division between true and false propaganda.
Key takeaway:
Ask whether a message deserves attention as well as whether it is accurate.
Origin of the quote
Published prose: Brave New World Revisited.
Who actually said this?
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