1. Governance of attention is the fundamental form of freedom and the primary lever by which individuals and civilizations are made. Everything else (identity, character, action, institutions, even material conditions over long horizons) is downstream of what gets persistent cognitive airtime. 2. Attention is a commons. Spam, rage bait, and addictive design are not just annoyances; they’re attention pollution that degrades our shared capacity to aim ourselves. 3. Nostr “fixes” this tragedy of the commons not by dictating what to think but by returning the steering wheel of attention to individuals and voluntary communities. It is, in effect, an attempt to decentralize the attractor loops of civilization, making them less fragile, less hijacked, and more open to emergent wisdom.