In Chapter 2, Odell examines the impulse to reject society entirely and isolate oneself. The author found respite in a local garden, where her interest in bird-watching deepened and her ability to notice her surroundings was heightened. For environmentalist John Muir, such an experience led him to quit a life of factory work for environmental activism. It’s humanizing to not feel like you have to be “productive” every hour of the day, and it’s personally enriching to create space for ourselves to think and discover hidden talents, true desires, etc. Chapter 1 focuses on the value of disengaging from the hamster wheel that is the attention economy. She is not advocating merely dropping out and isolating ourselves. Odell writes that the latter is a dual process of both rejecting the attention economy and redirecting our attention to our local communities. The Introduction presents the issue at hand: the damage the attention economy does to us and how we can disengage from it.
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