If we attune ourselves to the signals that resonate, it may be that we can find our way home.
"One of the reasons... is that we were gifted, we were attuned to adaptation, to doing what works, whereas they were trained to do everything in a certain way.
We are attuned to surprise because we usually face so little.
We may not have read Wittgenstein ourselves, but we're attuned enough to the philosophical zeitgeist to have absorbed the import of his ideas, which is that mulling over the nature of our existence, or that of God or gods, is symptomatic of a linguistic confusion - because there's no real agreement about what these terms refer to, to ask questions about them is simply nonsensical.
We are attuned in everyday conversation not primarily to the sentences we utter to one another, but to the speech acts that those utterances are used to perform: requests, warnings, invitations, promises, apologies, predictions, and the like.
Whatever our circumstances, we can choose within ourselves which side of the wall we are attuned to.
"It's the kind of thing we are attuned to," the official said.
Whether or not Aaron Swartz suffered because of the manipulation of the public discourse surrounding hacking, his case is a reminder that it is important that we be attuned to attempts to change the meanings of words in consequential ways.
We become attuned to the pace and rhythm of sharing and viewing, building an instinctual sense of the habits of our followers and those we follow, those we call friends and those we just stalk.
Now, thanks to YouTube – where there is a new cryptozoological sensation every day, from mammoths filmed wandering in the Siberian tundra, to Sasquatch loping through the Canadian backwoods – we're attuned to duplicity.
