kino on Nostr: I love how finite we are. Folks can freeze their brains and bodies all they like. The ...

I love how finite we are. Folks can freeze their brains and bodies all they like. The fact that we’re bound by time and space is a feature not a bug.

quoting note1ynk…qydk

Time and attention are the ultimate currencies. There is a reason why we "spend" the first and "pay" the latter. And while we do indeed "spend" time and "pay" attention, they are unfit as money because we can't accumulate either. There is a reason why using proper money frees up time and allows for an increase in long-term thinking—both individually and for society at large. Money is as important for capital accumulation as it is for distributed cognition, and if the money is broken, both of these things deteriorate. And with it, so does our time and attention.

By using attention as the de facto currency online, we destroyed depth and nuance, as well as our collective attention spans.