People confound the destructive lack of concentration that all ages and generations nowadays suffer, with the concentric vision (gravitating to the center) those persons must be able to cope with this discombobulated reality.
As a thought-provoking observation about the way people perceive and respond to the complexities of modern life I can only hope that they continue to admit the disconnective issues we all see on the ones we love the most and are open to move forward.
The destructive lack of concentration is a widespread issue that represents the difficulty of focusing in today’s world and can be attributed to various factors like constant distractions, information overload, and the fast-paced nature of modern society.
Amusingly, the thesis of a concentric vision is a paradox when put in contrast to the scattered focus, suggesting that individuals are developing a more focused, inward-looking approach to navigate this chaotic environment. This “concentric vision” is a nihilistic practice that acts just like mindfulness, meditation, or simply prioritizing tasks and filtering out distractions will impose solitude and distance. A clear adaptation to chaos in a world filled with constant stimuli, the “concentric vision” is a coping mechanism to maintain sanity and productivity in a chaotic environment.
The possibility for a new form of focus emerges from the possibility of a shift in how people approach tasks and information. Instead of multitasking and spreading attention thin, individuals may be unlearning to focus deeply on one thing at a time and changing to a multimodal attention span in which converging thoughts thrive. Either exploratory or superficial, its success could depend on the ability to control this system of production and on the acumen to delegate the end solution apparatus to more specialised machines.
Surely a critique of modern society from an obsolete state of modernity, the modern world, which is often characterized as fragmenting and overwhelming might admit this “concentric vision” as a necessary response to the evermore fragmented reality we find ourselves in.
I say find because we continuously deny our control over it and in an unsurprisingly egotistical manner we blame the role of technology in both the lack of concentration and the need for focused attention.
In some way this is a mental health issue when we approach the implications of what are the psychological effects of constant distractions and the pressure to be constant connectedness. Emotional intelligence and social intelligence are lacking together in the way they affect personal intelligence, as we are no longer able to cope with the myriad of techniques and practices for individuals to employ in order to enhance their ability to concentrate in a noisy world…
Embrace it or deny it but you cannot ignore it forever.