The Great American Attention Famine

With an Art Museum Kicker

You want to know why Cal Newport’s books sell faster than cheap whiskey at a NASCAR tailgate? Or why nicotine pouches are vanishing from gas station shelves like canned beans before a hurricane?

It’s because we’re starving. Starving for focus, a kind of attention that doesn’t dissolve into a TikTok scroll or a dopamine hit from the all-mighty algorithm.

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