People carry city vocal volume into quiet places and miss the quiet they seek

Evidence

Accustomed to speaking louder than prevailing, man-made, city noises, they fail to readjust their conversational volume when in quieter places and continue to talk in their city voices. CSU-afflicted individuals fail to quiet themselves. Thus they miss the very quiet and quieting experiences they seemingly seek. — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1292

Categorization

• DEFINE: Coins the term ‘chronic sonic urbanitis’ (CSU) for this self-defeating behavior.
• SEED: Angle: how our own voices, not just machines, destroy natural silence — a shift in who to blame.
• FICTION: Could inspire a character who visits wilderness but never lowers their voice, cutting themselves off from it.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1292
• XREF: connects to: City-dwellers judge natural sounds more benign than rural people do — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 483