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It is possible to ignore such dangers—say, by convincing yourself that you are a massively skilled multitasker—but it is equally easy to magnify their power until resistance seems futile. We should rather remember that it is possible and, really, necessary to do what David Foster Wallace recommended to the graduates of Kenyon: to be “conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
We may be powerless to alter certain events, but we remain free to choose our attitude towards them, and it is in our spontaneous acceptance of necessity that we find our distinctive freedom.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
I think throughout the album, there is ignorance. There's so much conflict on the album. There's so many people who refuse to hear each other and refuse to understand. And that is ignorance — refusing to know, not wanting to know, not wanting to see. There's a lot of denial. The album, I think, is in part about this process of moving through denial into understanding.
On 'Ignorance,' the Weather Station Compels You to Care
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