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This article is a fascinating explication of the core reason that, without any respect paid to my millennial nostalgia at all, we need to preserve the physical cinema. The digital "attention economy" introduces such immense layers of abstraction between the audience and the business that none of us should feel confident that it will allow us to express our tastes for entertainment with anything close to intentionality. If we want to keep getting any modicum of entertainment that we actually like -- what a high bar! -- then we need to maintain our right to vote audibly with our dollars.