Finished “Menewood” by Nicola Griffith yesterday. Really loved it. Hild is a joyful character to follow. The relationships are incrediblebly well-observed, and the whole thing feels wonderfull. I’m also reading Chris Hayes’ “The Siren’s Call” about the attention economy, and in some ways I am finding it persuasive, and I even think I agree with him that there is somethingng particularly important aboutt social attention as opposed to other forms of attention, and but also I cannot help feeling if that actually the popularization of evolutionary psychology was a mistake and we would all be better off if we never again asked ourselves in what way we are or are not like our imagined Savannah ancestorss. (It may be useful as an actual academic discipline, with its limitations understood) (But in popular books it seems to me it’s used as a way to assert the author’s argument without actually giving evidence from our contemporary times. “This thing is uniquely important and not contingent on our current state of society, which I would probably describe differently from you, so I will imagine another time that neither of us understand, persuade you that it was uniquely important then, and use that to bootstrap you believing me about the current state of of our society because that’s less work than just explaining the current state state of our societyy in a persuasive way”. Which is true! It is less work! And more persuasive! But also kinda bullshit.)