attention bankruptcy

The Neural Mortgage: How ”Free” Services Are Mortgaging Your Brain’s Future (And Why the Bill Comes Due at 35)

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Neural mortgage visualization showing brain with chains and age threshold timeline around 35

The Neural Mortgage: How ”Free” Services Are Mortgaging Your Brain’s Future (And Why the Bill Comes Due at 35) You think you’re getting free email, free social networking, free entertainment. You’re not. You’re taking out a mortgage on your brain’s future. And at age 35, the bank comes to collect. Not in money. In something … The Neural Mortgage: How ”Free” Services Are Mortgaging Your Brain’s Future (And Why the Bill Comes Due at 35)

Attention Debt: The Bankruptcy Your Brain Doesn’t See Coming

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Attention debt visualization showing fragmented neural pathways and notification overload

Attention Debt: The Bankruptcy Your Brain Doesn’t See Coming Can’t focus anymore? It’s not you — it’s attention debt. Attention debt is the neurological cost of the Web2 attention economy: where platforms profit by fragmenting your focus, and your brain literally rewires itself to prefer distraction over depth. In a contribution economy, attention isn’t just … Attention Debt: The Bankruptcy Your Brain Doesn’t See Coming

The Democracy-Attention Death Spiral: Why Cognitive Collapse Ends Democracy

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Attention debt causes cognitive collapse and democratic failure - fragmented mind visualization

A transmission from the final decade when democracy still required — and still depended on — sustained human attention. Written before the collapse was measurable, when we mistook neural decay for political dysfunction. Archive Note — Originally transmitted 2025, annotated 2033 This text was written before the mechanism became undeniable, when it was still possible … The Democracy-Attention Death Spiral: Why Cognitive Collapse Ends Democracy