People confuse power with competence. The attention-getting signal of extreme volume followed by the false impression of competence triggers hormonal response

People confuse power with competence. The attention-getting signal of extreme volume followed by the false impression of competence triggers hormonal response of interest. Drape yourself with the carcass of a dead animal (that someone else prepared) and you're the skin deep image of an alpha seeking procreation opportunities. If people ever used their heads, motorcycling would retreat to the practical, enjoyable activity it is at baseline. But in a confused society of scarcity, with a curious blind spot to unenforcing this branch of noise laws, the benefits of the "loudness mutation" to the individual are great.