The Collapse of the Attention Economy
From funny videos to an identity crisis in barely fifteen years
Jake Mura
Writer and editor of Irrelevant Matters, writing essays on ideas, spirituality, philosophy, culture and society.
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An Economy That Runs on Attention
Why performance replaced production — and what it’s doing to us
On the Problem of Being a “Citizen of the World”
Mobility, autonomy, and the asymmetry of belonging
The Ethics of Illusion
Why truth without readiness can become a form of violence
The Ceremony That Never Ends
On symbols, delayed reality, and the quiet theft of agency.
The Philosophers We Imagine vs. The Humans They Actually Were
Socrates wouldn’t be offline — he’d be in the comments.