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Attention is not interest.

It is capacity.

What attention rests on receives energy.

What receives energy gains influence.

At scale, attention functions as currency.

Not metaphorically.

Structurally.

It is exchanged, concentrated, diverted, and spent.

Systems do not require belief.

They require attention.

Attention funds narratives.
Attention stabilizes institutions.
Attention maintains momentum.

What is ignored loses power regardless of truth or value.

Currency does not judge.

It circulates.

Attention flows toward:

• intensity

• novelty

• contrast

• emotional charge

Not accuracy.
Not wisdom.
Not necessity.

This is not a flaw.

It is a property.

Spectacle exists to attract and hold attention.

Conflict concentrates it.
Resolution releases it.
Then the cycle repeats.

Where attention pools, structure forms.

Where attention withdraws, structure dissolves.

Nothing needs to be dismantled.

Starvation is enough.

Attention scarcity weakens systems more effectively than opposition.

Not through resistance, but through redistribution.

Individuals do not control attention.

But they allocate it locally.

Small shifts compound.

Not as movements, but as gradients.

Attention spent unconsciously maintains existing patterns.

Attention held lightly remains mobile.

Mobile attention resists capture without needing to fight.

The sequence does not instruct where attention should go.

It shows what attention does when it moves.

From here, currency becomes visible.

And what is visible can circulate differently without force.