Your Attention Didn't Collapse. It Was Stolen.

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The average American adult spends over three hours a day staring into their phone. If you’re a teenager it’s even worse – seven hours. What’s really troubling is that in study after study, people say that they want to be looking at their screens less. They just don’t know how. They’ve lost control. Johann Hari interviewed over 200 of the world’s leading experts on focus and attention for his new book, Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again. What he found was that your attention didn’t collapse. It’s been stolen from you. So on today’s episode, while everyone is busy debating what Elon Musk is doing to Twitter, Johann explains what Twitter is doing to all of us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Barclays, we're here for every goal.
0:06.4	We're here for the Premier League,
0:09.0	and the Barclays Women's Super League.
0:12.0	We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance.
0:18.0	We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.
0:27.6	Barclays, here for every goal.
0:32.1	This is honestly, the deal is honestly.
0:33.0	The deal is done.
0:35.0	Twitter has been sold to Elon Musk.
0:38.0	Elon Musk purchased Twitter this week for 44 billion dollars.
0:42.0	The outspoken CEO of Tesla and the world's wealthiest person has said he wants to buy Twitter
0:47.3	because he thinks it's not living up to its potential as a platform for free speech and the internet exploded.
0:54.0	Elon Musk lives in a world in which the only kind of free speech is white men feeling free to say whatever the hell they want.
1:04.3	Well, it looks like Twitter's gone.
1:06.7	They accepted the money and Elon Stalin is taking over.
1:12.1	So fuck you, Twitter Twitter and goodbye forever.
1:14.8	Are you concerned about the rise of American fascism?
1:17.8	Well today you can be more concerned.
1:20.5	This is a big win. This is huge.
1:22.4	The fact that it's now announced. That's fucking amazing.
1:25.0	If you get invited to something where there are no rules, where there is total freedom,
1:29.0	for everybody, do you actually want to go to that party?
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