Is there a battle to get into our heads?
Yes, there is a vying for our attention. Today for the economy and politics our attention is the main good.
The perverse side is that we feel free, with many options.
Freedom is going beyond the options that are there and being able to conquer something that is not there.
Tell me how we can be free.
First of all, freedom is to reject what is there, not to settle for what is given, but to transcend it in search of something that does not yet exist. Freedom is not positive.
She is hardworking.
It is not something that already exists and that I want, it is the effort to reject what is there to achieve something else. Freedom is transformation.
Who will leave the comfort of the couch and the remote for a mystery?
It would be necessary to see if this freedom to choose between hundreds of options of series and information is as comfortable as it appears, because then all the studies reveal that the anxiolytic is the most consumed drug.
Is true.
Then this comfort has a lot of suffering and discomfort, because it is precisely the comfort of non-freedom, of life resigned to what is.
And what is there?
Often a job that you don't like is subjected to bad conditions to produce something that you don't find useful or interesting. Sometimes you have to play with this false comfort in search of that other thing.
what else
The desire: that is what makes your existence worthwhile, that something vibrates in your life. The question of desire in the life of each and in the life in common is the essential question that is very much neutralized today.
What do we mean by desire?
It is confused with an object that we lack, something that we want to own; but it is rather a force that sets us in motion.
Where there is desire, there is attention.
It is the heart of Simone Weil's philosophy, the connection to new technologies of young people is actually a lack of connection, of desire: if we are doing something that makes us vibrate, there is involvement, care, attention.
In this society we are full of obligations and with little satisfaction.
It would be interesting to think about a transformation so as not to resign ourselves to a life that is made up of obligations that others have thought for us. In the end it seems that all we have left is the practice of dissimulation.
...?
Inhabiting two truths, trying to do something else that connects more with our desire below what we are told to do. But resigning ourselves to a life that others have defined for us seems to me like a living death.
Has it always been this way or do we now have a distortion about control?
There is now a very strong dispute about what is a desirable life. Capitalism offers us images of desire, it seeks our most intimate adherence, and that is that we buy its idea of happiness.
They are very insistent, it ends up penetrating.
That's why I think it's important to start from rejection, not to settle for what exists.
And does it have to do with presence?
Yes, because when there is desire and attention we are present in what we do, we are not halfway there, thinking about something else.
And if we don't like what we do...
It's not about liking, that's the Facebook phrase: I like, I don't like. Very often we don't like desire because it requires effort and condemns us to low moments in any relationship with a partner or friendship or in a job, desire is not always joyful, but it can be full, make sense to me.
Is desire movement?
Yes, and the best way to start is with what doesn't work, what hurts us in life that leads us to be anesthetized by Netflix and others; I am there because there is something that cannot be pacified, that makes me suffer.
You need to follow the clue in the question.
Yes: what is wrong with me, why this tedium; they are transformative questions, because pain does not leave us alone.
You talk about an eclipse of attention, not a deficit.
Alexander the Great, the most powerful man of his time, went to Diogenes the Cynic to tell him that he greatly admires him and will grant him any wish, and the philosopher in his barrel only asks him to step aside, that covers the sun
A rebellious gesture.
The eclipse of attention is this plugging of the light of attention, all those algorithms, protocols, economies that promise us everything, like Alexander the Great, in exchange for us giving them the freedom of attention, in exchange for our passivity.
