'Background television' is very popular.
It is shown everywhere,
particularly in public places
where nobody cares who watches.
It fills the daytime schedules
and takes no effort to enjoy, or ignore.
What worries me about it
is how favourably it defines,
and implicitly encourages,
continuous partial attention;
a partial in/attentiveness
in which human beings
only ever partially give each other
their full attention, and deny
how diminished their attention span is.
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