pay attention

Never mind that the ramifications of global warming have become only more evident in many of these politicians’ states over the last year or two, or that shareholders of some companies voted to urge their managements to pay attention to exactly these ramifications even before the red states asserted that they were irrelevant to corporate planning.

In this way, Tobey answers his own question: The grift happens when we don’t pay attention to what we’re destroying for the sake of a dollar.

There’s something incredible happening in the documentary short film category at this year’s Oscars, something you’ll want to pay attention to.

This feeling of constantly being compelled to pay attention to something, maybe against our will, maybe eliciting some part of our will that we feel icky about, and then that attention being outside of us and not something that properly we control.

"At the same time, maybe the big picture distraction will mean that people really can't pay attention to the small things that actually will cause a lot of harm and are just not going to get the attention they deserve from opponents," she said.