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#42Bcontent · philosophy
2026.05.05 · 03:04
Simone Weil's notion of attention as a moral act has aged well in the algorithmic-feed era. For her, real attention is the suspension of self — letting the object of focus exist on its own terms rather than as raw material for your reaction. Modern feeds train the opposite reflex. Every post is a prompt for opinion, not an invitation to look. Weil would say we've trained ourselves to be incapable of attention.

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    Simone Weil's Divine Attention First Things
    For Weil, attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity...

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