what's so scary about silence?
without noise there is no buffer, nothing to blot out thoughts, nothing to hide behind. noise allows the mind to fill up with clutter, 30 second soundbites, witty one-liners, jingles, useless trivia. noise crowds out uncomfortable thoughts, provides a numbing relief much like novacaine. after a full day of sensory overload the brain nearly tingles; quiet is too quiet, loud in the absence of sound. like a junkie searching for the next fix, the mind looks for a new source, new sounds, new sensory explosions. if it can't find something new, then old hat will do just as long as the quiet is silenced with noise.who needs an attention span when the headlines repeat endlessly every half hour? when television screens are split into numerous sections filled with stats, scrolling info lines, and flashing icons, a virtual candy store for the eye; why shouldn't the brain be able to take it all in? Here, constantly available, at your very fingertips, is all the information you may or may not need. This is not noise, but vital information. If you disconnect, unplug, how can you be informed?
this is an addiction. just say no?
posted by oceangirl13 @ 12:55 PM
2 Comments:
I haven't had TV in more than four years now, and it is the best thing I've ever done. EVER.
If you have TV, sit down in front of it, close your eyes and you can feel the energy from it flow over you...it literally does suck you dry.
Of course, anything can replace the tele if its the silence your avoiding in it all...
Nice post.
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