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