And that last is why I do think we need to be paying more attention to attention. The kinds of enduring structures of politics that social scientists pay attention to are at the least under enormous stress, and very likely in the midst of dramatic changes. If there is a useful and relevant political science literature on the processes through which random social media memes are becoming the basis for dramatic changes in U.S. governmental structures and policies, I’d love to see it. I don’t think it currently exists. Nor do the current internal structures of academic research make it easy to build up