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On attention and communities:
In general, in smaller communities, there seems to be a focus on being able to provide attention. A lot more attention per person. Because one can provide more attention. And the likelihood of running into people who you ran into previously are more likely. There is a higher chance of communities forming with higher trust organically.
Compare this with cities where there tends to be more people per attention that one has. Because your attention is finite there is often (though not always) more scarcity mindset that often develops around attention. So when someone provides way more attention than you're used to it feels off. The reason it feels off is because attention is scarce. It feels like if they are investing this much attention into you, there must be a reason that they are doing this, and that they must be seeking something in return.
So I think if you are in a city and you have a scarcity mindset, and someone is providing you a lot more attention than you're normally used to, it feels really off. communities are fueled by continuous attention, and the number of people in a community, and the finiteness of attention in general, and the casual non-planning way that you run into people, and how that's much likelier to happen in a smaller community, contributes greatly towards how something like attention is held scarce 4 replies
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