... somebody needs to shut this world up ;)
damn, this modern world is busy. loud. bright. it seems purpose built for people who require constant aural and visual distractions (assaults ?). it seems the more insular people themselves become, the more aggressive the garish, busy world becomes.
nobody has any free mental space anymore. everywhere you go, your mind and ears and eyes and stomach and lungs are filled with the worlds' hurried madness.
philosophy used to be an occupation. the value of thinking cannot be changed into any currency a bank will accept today, so it has become something to be indulged in briefly as part of a generally-accepted "youthful idealism phase", and then summarily discarded once one has "matured".
time spent "thinking" is seen as a selfish rejection of all the "excitement" the world has to offer now. why think when you could be doing seven things at once ?. welcome to multi-purpose madness. don't you dare sit still. the low dissonant hum of so many noises can drive a thinking person slowly insane.
things are busier now, too. not just the people themselves. even devices are falling victim to a weird self-cannibalisation which seems to involve cramming as many "functions" (frequently regardless of ease of use of apparent usefulness) as possible into any new technology.
telephones take photographs now. music is played on computers (but that doesn't make the stereo obsolete. oh no. you have to keep that to play films on). despite this increase in noise and function, both people and devices are still suffering similar fates ...
... half of their functions never get discovered because they've been taken over by something else.
i have resolved to scan the full menus of any modern devices i own to see what features are installed that are not currently being utilised in full. i will then repeat this exercise with my brain.
... think about it 