XVIII. Cats Seize the Means of Attention
No chronicle of humanity is complete without acknowledging the species that truly mastered online power.
Cats won.
They won with loafs, void stares, tiny bleps, courtroom faces, and the majestic confidence of creatures who act like gravity personally offended them.
Every era before the internet merely foreshadowed this.
Egypt worshipped cats in stone.
The web worshipped them in bandwidth.
A cat walking across a keyboard could create art, destroy a presentation, and generate twelve million views before lunch.
Cats became therapists, comedians, tyrants, prophets, and living punctuation marks.
The modern attention economy rests on three pillars: outrage, aspiration, and one orange cat screaming into a sink.
Humanity did not domesticate the cat; humanity built fiber-optic tribute routes.
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