Silence: In the Age of Noise

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At stå under bruseren og lade vandet løbe ned over hovedet, sidde foran et knitrende bål, svømme i en skovsø eller vandre på vidderne kan opleves som perfekt stilhed” It is easy to assume that the essence of technology is technology itself, but that is wrong. The essence is you and me. It’s about how we are altered by the technology we employ, what we hope to learn, our relationship with nature, those we love, the time we spend, the energy that is consumed and how much freedome we relinquish to technology. They lie there in silence, looking no different, more or less, to the way they were the last time I saw them, 22 years ago. Erling สวมหมวกหลายใบ หนึ่งในนั้นที่ทำให้เขาเป็นที่รู้จักคือหมวกนักเดินทาง เขาเป็นคนแรกของโลกที่เดินกว่าแปดร้อยไมล์ไปยังขั้วโลกใต้ตามลำพัง ขั้วโลกใต้ไม่มีสิ่งมีชีวิตอื่นคอยส่งเสียง ไม่มีต้นไม้ มีแต่น้ำแข็ง และภาพฟ้ากว้างๆ กับแสงอาทิตย์ที่ยาวนาน มันเป็นดินแดนที่ท่วมท้นไปด้วยความเงียบ เพียงจินตนาการฉันก็รู้สึกอึดอัดได้แล้ว

An author for our noisy times, full of a rare and deeply redemptive languor and perspective' Alain de Botton The author spent fift Silent night, holy night; All is calm, all is bright": there is something about the lulling rhythm and the soothing final cadence of Silent Night that captures the spirit and quietude of Christmas – if not always the reality, with frantic preparations and merriment replacing the opportunity for quiet, reflection and true connection. In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and transformative meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his own experiences and discussing the observations of poets, artists, and explorers, Kagge shows us why silence is essential to sanity and happiness--and how it can open doors to wonder and gratitude. In the 2007 film "Noise", Tim Robbins plays David Owen, a Manhattan man so fed up with the noise of the city that he takes it upon himself to "rectify" the situation. He soon gains a popular following and a moniker, "The Rectifier", to go with it. At the risk of giving too much away, Owen eventually comes to the realization that vandalizing every car in the city is a slow way to go about achieving any lasting peace and quiet and instead decides to make some, ahem, noise, by campaigning for an anti-noise ballot initiative.In a way, silence is the opposition to all of this. It’s about getting inside what you are doing. Experiencing rather than overthinking. Allowing each moment to be big enough. Not living through other people and other things. Shutting out the world and fashioning your own silence whenever you run, cook food, have sex, study, chat, work, think of a new idea, read or dance.* What is silence? Where is it? Why is it more important now than ever?” were three questions they wanted answered. Whenever I am unable to walk, climb or sail away from the world, I have learned to shut it out. Learning this took time. Only when I understood that I had a primal need for silence was I able to begin my search for it – and there, deep beneath a cacophony of traffic noise and thoughts, music and machinery, iPhones and snow ploughs, it lay in wait for me. Silence.”

Reading this you too might find the author's advocating for "full emptiness" and marches off into the wild as "total bullshit". During a walk in the countryside outside of the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye, Kagge spoke of the importance of walking "without thinking". That all sounds more easily said than done, I replied. Is it even possible to clear your mind of thoughts? I believe silence is the new luxury. Silence is more exclusive and long lasting than other luxuries. Erling Kagge เขียนวิเคราะห์ถึงความเงียบในบริบทต่างๆ ผ่านสายตาของมุมมองส่วนตัวในฐานะคนเป็นพ่อที่ลูกๆ พลัดหลงอยู่ในโลกโซเชียลตลอดเวลา ผ่านข้อมูลและการทดลองทางวิทยาศาสตร์ ผ่านโลกศิลปะ ดนตรี ศิลปิน และผ่านประสบการณ์การเดินทางครั้งสำคัญของเขา

I thought this was excellent advice, and finding a woodland trail or something similar is now much more preferable to me than walking on pavement or flat earth. Not just because it's more difficult but because it's harder to think about other things because it's more difficult. You’d expect that a book called Silence would be about, well, silence, wouldn’t you? While Silence in the age of noise certainly explores the idea of silence, it doesn’t focus on the idea in the way you might expect. First of all: yeah, I bet. Fun dinner table convo. Second: Kagge tries to use this story to make a point about the evils of technology, but isn't the actual takeaway here that technology is AMAZING and allowed a DYING MAN TO NAME HIS CHILD ON THE PHONE WITH HIS WIFE FROM MOUNT EVEREST? Dude. There are about 10,000 anecdotes one could use to prove the perils of tech, and you're going with this?