Day 354
"Reader! Just recently I had the unfortunate 'pleasure' of having two encounters with the imposing sound of sledgehammers in two different locations, one of them being my home, the other being a café where I met a friend. My half-serious question what that might mean she answered with the suggestion that I should shout LOUDER.- Reader, should I yell at people? Should we all yell at each other? Isn't our daily soundscape already giving us the feeling of inhabiting an airfield? Since artists are usually a bit faster in their perception of what is happening some of them anticipated the daily noise and countered with heavy metal, grunge and noise music. It made them and their followers pretty much deaf, and what they actually did was yelling at each other and misinterpreting this as understanding. What can we do? Do you want to yell at me a bit, even punch a cushion in front of you? Well, do it, Reader . . but then : let's become more quite , sensitive , mindful, touching . . . feel the place of yelling and . . . let go of it . . ."