Chris Hayes has a new book out, and during his MSNBC show on Tuesday, he used the occasion to discuss the sensory bombardment of Donald Trump’s second term — and how he thinks Americans can fight back. His main message: “Focus is power.”
That, as he explained, is basically the theme of his new book, “The Siren’s Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource,” which examines the enormous effort made to grab people’s attention in the modern political and media environment.
“So far, the experience of this first week of Donald Trump has been an awfully familiar, one kind of sensory bombardment, just being overwhelmed by stimuli, unable to focus, a kind of total attentional domination,” Hayes began.