Charles Eisenstein

attention is hardly our own anymore, so easily do the powers of politics and commerce manipulate it.

do any work, to do anything at all requires that one place attention on that task rather than on some other

attention is so fragmented we cannot sustain it long enough to create anything independent of the programs that surround us

are easy targets not just for advertising, but for propaganda, demagoguery, and fascism.

Susceptible to any simplistic narrative with immediate emotional appeal, w

“A patent is a device that enables one man to claim special financial rewards for being the last link in the complicated social process that produced the invention.”

social, cultural, and spiritual capital.

cultural capital, which goes by the term intellectual property

By making them private property

we are walling off something that is not ours. We are stealing from the cultural commons.