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# The Ever-Present Audience - Commonplaces
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/jake-ever-present-audience/
- Published: 2018-09-11T06:00:08.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T19:57:04.000Z
- Description: Sacasas: It is not just the technological tools available to us that deform us; it is also the desire for attention we have which these tools encourage.
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Jake Meador

[L. M. Sacasas](https://thefrailestthing.com/2018/09/09/the-deforming-power-of-an-ever-present-audience/?ref=mereorthodoxy.com):

> It is not just that our attention is fractured by the constant barrage of information, it is also that our desire *for* attention has deformed our intellectual and emotional lives. The ever-present audience has proven too powerful a temptation, too heavy a burden.