Braindead Society

George Saunders could not be more right on the fact that people listen to the loudest person in the room. How is it that people could become distracted so easily? I admit I have a horrible attention span and there are plenty of people that do, but why is it? There have been many occassions in which there are many cliques and groups talking amongst themselves, then are suddenly interrupted by "the man with the megaphone."
An example is when I was afterschool waiting with some friends for my mother to arrive. There was about six of us there talking about different things, then one of them stood up and started talking about soccer and left a few minutes later. Once they left, all of us began talking about soccer and things related to it, even though a couple minutes before we were talking about homecoming or our cellphones. What makes us lose attention this easy, is it lack of intelligence or could it be laziness, whichever reason it is, we all know it happens one way or another.