Attention Machines and Future Politics Highlight

The loss of memory means that truths stand very briefly or not at all. Attention is the faculty which reigns, in a sense, over the present tense. In certain ways, Trump is the avatar of this. He governs not through legislation, but through social media posts. When things are against him, he hurls nonsense into the news cycle — brute forcing changes in the attention stack, the narrative layer of things, until he has generated enough free energy to act.