"... to what should we give our attention, and to what do we give our attention (and who decides)?
[...] What are we doing when we pay attention to the attention people pay to their hobby horses? Hobby horses [meaning] absorption with a view to the stopping of time; a form of arrested development or arrested attention; a refuge from the future.
[...] Attention becomes the form and the medium of our desire, prompted by the felt lack of something. We attend to our felt absences.
[...] All morality depends upon knowing where and how to pay attention. And to pay attention to morality is also always to pay attention to attention.
[...] Attention nourishes us; distraction depletes us. Attention redeems the time. It makes it feel worth living, and living out. Good attention makes a good life."
Adam Phillips, Attention Seeking [pgs 91, 92, 93]
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