The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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Okay.

So attention and love have important connections.

And if you fragment the attention, love gets compromised too and makes some sense to me that the technological frenzy, the kind of regime of technological frenzy under which we live

might be correlated with increases in hate and fragmented love.

And this was published in 2019 draft form by a group that called themselves friends of attention.

I did not do much research.

I just came across this.

They may be lovely people.

It may be a cult.

But this is their manifesto.

Edit it down a little bit.

So in the present and worsening state of things, the faculty and the power of human desire

suffers from monoculture, the over-cultivation of one or maybe two forms of a desire,

in addition to one or more primitive spasms of the brainstem that resemble but are not desire.

Desire is impoverished and it has fallen and the grammar of desire too, both its call and its response. Instead,

there is the continuous circular generation of immediate satisfaction of miserable debased

desires, a thing that masquerades as freedom of attentions on the rampage,

it resembles an infinitely scrolling buffet of choice,

where even the most thrilling of confections made up of the same dye and corn syrup as all the rest.

Constant invitations to self-expression are instead solicitations

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