Vignette: 'Spare your ears, save your self!'

...Call it the hustle and bustle of urban life, if you like, but I think it's part of a larger (and commercially driven) ideology that says all silence must be filled, no life is complete without a soundtrack.

There is money in noise – nobody ever went broke playing music too loud – but it takes a toll on the psyche. It's not just that, as study after study attests, noise is a major cause of stress, health problems, learning deficiencies and anger. It also gets in the way of our self-definition...

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