We're Too Busy Fighting Crow's Feet to Fight Fascism

About this episode

This episode explores how societal systems affect our self-perception and attention, highlighting the concepts of perception drift and change blindness in relation to coloniality and collective issues.

Our attention is constantly being hijacked by systems training us to see ourselves as problems needing to be fixed. Let’s play with the phenomena of ‘perception drift’ (when you can’t see changes in/on you— grace à Courtney Cox) and ‘change blindness’ (when you can no longer see change around you) to explore how we’re perpetuating coloniality rather than tending to collective issues + why reclaiming our attention and moving beyond pathologizing ourselves is revolutionary. This ep is full of ...

People in this episode

Host: Dana Balicki

Topics covered

• perception drift
• change blindness
• coloniality
• self-perception
• collective issues
• attention reclamation

Keywords

• perception drift
• change blindness
• coloniality
• self-improvement
• attention
• society
• culture

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