Sitting at my monitor today, I caught myself thinking: we no longer read texts; we scan them. Social media algorithms have trained our brains to expect a reward every 15 seconds. But deep knowledge is not a reward; it is a process.
The Attention Problem
Once, we could spend hours studying a single philosophical treatise. Now, three paragraphs seem like a “longread.” This is not just laziness. It is a cognitive restructuring.
“We are becoming collectors of headlines, but losing our taste for content.”
What to do?
The only way is intentional slowing down. Creating spaces where there are no notifications, no likes, only us and the thought. Polar Marxism is an attempt to create such a space for a systemic understanding of the world.