"Stop. Think about it. Every sensation you have comes from one source: civilization.... What can you see, hear smell, taste that does not originate in or is not mediated by civilized people? Crickets chirping on a Sounds of Environment CD doesn't count."(The Sound Unbound)
Every day as we go about our live we are surrounded by things that have been created by the Civilized people. While great advancements have come by these civilized people at the same time much has come to fill in the open areas of our thinking. No longer can we just sit by and have quiet unless we choose to find the time to step back from the world and think. Even the Pope Benedict XVI has spoken on how silence is becoming a rare occurence. Noise has begun to fill in the spaces where before we had openness; places to think and places to learn for ourselves.
"There's a famous story about the artist Marcel Duchamp. No one knows if it's really true, but that's how stories work. Some time over a period of years in the mid-twentieth century, he decided to stop painting, saying he stopped simply because he had started to just. "fill things in..." This is what's going on now"(The Sound Unbound) {This is an example of Duchamp's work}
If we allow ourselves to get so involved in the noise of the internet because we can perpetually be learning useful or useless information, we will lose the openness where all of the great discoveries are made. It is not through learning random facts or hearing about your favorite basketball player's life that we can truly learn. So STOP STEP BACK AND ENJOY THE SILENCE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE!
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