"'Have you ever known people who have to turn on a TV or a radio the moment they enter a room, or can't stand to do work without some sound on? These are people who are desperately afraid of confronting some truth about themselves, so they try to drown it out with constant distractions.' —MetaFilter user Pastabagel"
or people who were raised with helicopter sounds and shells firing from an early age.
ReplyDeleteMusic can put me in a state of flow [in the Csikszentmihalyi sense] occasionally, when I'm doing other things, but on the whole folks use "noise" - tv, radio, liquor, food, etc - to keep from introspection and confronting themselves.
ReplyDelete"All of Man's problems stem from his inability to sit quietly with himself." - Pascal
maybe it's my interpretation of the lifehacker quote (and Pascal) but it generalizes and as you've repeatedly pointed out, that's not cool. there are always exceptions to an observation.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
ReplyDeleteIt's your interpretation :)