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Don't tell me to pay attention

How often I've heard, "If you were paying attention then you'd see what's going on." It irritates me because it's not an argument. That's something you say when you can't articulate your arguments or when you don't have any arguments to articulate.

We all live in our own worlds yet we seem to think that everyone else is seeing and hearing the same things we do. So it must be that other people are just not paying attention.

No. Everyone is paying attention right now. I think that's safe to assume. Maybe we should focus on the quality of the information that we're paying attention to.