What about loudmouths? What about climate change? What about very attractive people?

I am interested in my friend's mind and thoughts.  Her thinking, her principles, her background remind me of my vague notions of those of my mother, at least what I think I know of my mother.  This friend is in the midst of the book by Chris Hayes called "The Sirens Call".

The book is about attention: what we do with it, how we use our ability to focus on a subject or source.  It is possible to get all worked up about attention that kids, teens and others pay to their smartphones.  Of course, it is possible to get all worked up about most things.

I minored in psychology and in philosophy in grad school.  The first course I was required to take in psych was Psychophysics, how human senses work, especially sight and sound.  I have had experience with written worries about too much television watching, too much sitting, too much eating, too much worrying, too little worrying.

One strategy that is sometimes used is to find another worrisome or possibly worrisome topic and ask "What about ……?"  So, what about shrinking governmental support for medical research?  What about sexism?