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The duality of man: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/the-end-of-silence/598366/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/the-en
by brickfaced 3y ago
The duality of man:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/the-end-of-silence/598366/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/the-end... - "Why Everything Is Getting Louder The tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can't adapt." (2019)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/let-brooklyn-be-loud/670600/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/let-bro... - "Why Do Rich People Love Quiet? The sound of gentrification is silence." (2022)
- lukas099 3y agoIf you couldn't get good things (like quieter homes) by spending more money, what would be the point of money?
- sixstringtheory 3y agoI remember reading that second one. What a load of garbage. I simply have a hard time sleeping. If I seek out quiet, that's me trying to adapt my environment to meet my biophysical needs the best way I know how, not me punching down to the proles. Not everything has to be a normative classist struggle.
- cubefox 3y agoI was nodding along until I remembered a recent student party in Germany, interrupted by the police, as the neighbors in the next house complained. The party was then transformed into a talking party. At least the neighbors were satisfied.