M U L L A duel of ideas

Notifications and the banality of distraction

Hannah Arendt  vs  Byung-Chul Han

Arendt watched a man at trial in Jerusalem and concluded that evil, in our age, is not monstrous. It is what happens when thinking stops — when the mind goes elsewhere and the body keeps doing the job. Han, half a century later, argues we have built an entire economy that interrupts thinking on purpose, every fifteen seconds, in your pocket.

Is the notification the modern banality of distraction — and are you, this morning, complicit?

Whose side are you on?

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