Evidence
The noise was immense. It was gut-pounding. It smacked the cosmos. Without thinking I clamped the flat of my palms to both ears and screwed my face into the scrunched expression of a root-canal patient. I usually despise people who do that on subway platforms. Wimps, I think; milquetoast souls who cough if someone is smoking across the street, who wear cardigans and bicycle clips; for God’s sake, if you’re so delicate, move to an ashram! But here I was doing the same thing. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 32
I usually despise people who do that on subway platforms. Wimps, I think; milquetoast souls who cough if someone is smoking across the street, who wear cardigans and bicycle clips; for God’s sake, if you’re so delicate, move to an ashram! But here I was doing the same thing. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 32
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 32
- XREF: connects to: Living people can be silenced by exploitation and poverty, not only by death — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 407; The desire for silence outlasts and exceeds mere relief from noise fatigue — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 211; People instinctively generate noise to assert existence against overwhelming emptiness — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 224 (+15 more)
Library Connections
- Extreme battlefield noise can annihilate thought and reduce a person to helpless reflex
#expands(0.85) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 424
Broader Connections
- People need natural quiet to access the stillness within themselves
#corroborates(0.85) - Loss of quiet erodes the very awareness needed to notice its loss
#corroborates(0.80) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 896 - Chronic noise conflict has driven ordinary people to lethal violence
#exemplifies(0.79) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 48 - People fear true silence because it threatens rather than merely rests their worldview
#expands(0.77) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 462 - Loss of silence fundamentally alters human nature itself
#corroborates(0.75) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1354 - The brain’s evolved vigilance actively forecloses the possibility of true silence
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