In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik

Author:George Prochnik [Prochnik, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-385-53326-3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2010-05-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Home Front

At this point I thought that I understood a little better why our world sounds the way it does. For a combination of evolutionary, commercial, infrastructural, and sociocultural reasons, there’s more continual, inescapable noise than ever before. And the new noisiness that’s tipped us over the edge into the land of loud may be the hardest to mitigate of all. Why? Because we ourselves crave that noise to keep us feeling energized, youthful, focused, free, fast—and protected from all the other noise we can’t control. But that doesn’t make the need for silence any less profound. How can we opt out of the world of noise? What can we do in practical terms to soundproof our lives other than by just making more masking noise?

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