From the article Radical Attention Is Indigenous Relation in The Empty Cup. I found the part about commodities as being made to be forgotten very interesting.

Below is a bit of context on the interview from the site:

Edson Krenak is an Indigenous activist, scholar, and writer of the Krenak people in Brazil. He serves as the Brazil/Amazon program manager at the U.S.-based Indigenous rights non-profit, Cultural Survival. Krenak sat down with Editor-in-Chief Peter Schmidt to discuss his work.

EK: For example, when you talk about encantos, the spirits of nature, you are talking about the past as part of the present. Ancestry is important for Indigenous people because it’s an opportunity to merge memory (of the past) and attention (to the present). In his book The Falling Sky, shaman Davi Kopenawa describes the commodity society as being “organized through forgetfulness.”

Commodities are objects whose history is meant to be forgotten. That is, for me, one of the most evil aspects of these new technologies. People don’t ask where this technology comes from! There was a recent study asking Japanese youth to name three minerals inside their devices. They didn’t know. They couldn’t name three metals. Imagine, then, if you ask the much deeper question: “How much extraction do you need to produce one smartphone?” People have no clue.

As it turns out, there are more than 50 different metals in one smartphone, and you need to extract almost 300 kilos to produce one single smartphone. It’s staggering! This has everything to do with the fracturing of our attention. We don’t know where our technology comes from. What was done to the land to make this attractive device in our hands, this device that is stealing our attention?

When you give your full human attention, you are remembering who you are and who helped to make you.