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Analysis Of Matthew B. Crawford's Article The Cost Of Paying Attention

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In the article The Cost of Paying Attention, the author, Matthew B. Crawford shares his revelation that individuals are constantly surrounded by advertisements. He starts by sharing an instance where he saw advertisements as he was checking out at a grocery store and then claims that they constantly steal consumers limited attention there by taking away our ability to dwell in silence or without the advertisements. He questions what would happen if individuals valued attention as much as they valued air and water. He recalls the advertisements he has seen in airports that could have caused him to forget something valuable because he was more focused on the advertisement for even a moment. He addresses the cluelessness of consumers as they are,

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