C.S. Lewis's Warning Goes Viral: Degrading Attention Is the First Step to Hell
david_perell · x · 2026-09-17
David Perell resurfaces Simone Weil's and C.S. Lewis's argument that attention is the foundation of morality. In The Screwtape Letters, the reliable path to damnation isn't grand sins but constant distraction: judging ideas by labels instead of content, and drowning the mind in a stream of immediate sensory experiences. Doomscrolling, he argues, is not neutral — it quietly takes you away from doing good.
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