man-eating tigers

the number of things that compete for attention is simply ridiculous.

facebook, digg, google reader. newspapers, magazines, TV. advertisements for everything, particularly things we never knew we needed.

the problem either lies in i) all these evil attention-grabbing things that bother me, or ii) my inability to resist being distracted and sucked in all these attention-grabbing things.

the hunter-gatherer instinct may have evolved so we pay attention to anything out of the ordinary that might interest us, e.g. that movement in the bushes might be a man-eating tiger. with man-eating tigers now almost extinct, and with the soul-eating consumer culture all around us, we might be better off stilling our minds.