A shocking number of people are completely incapable of being alone with their thoughts.
I was at a bathhouse the other night and these two people were both playing videos, out loud, on their phones while having a conversation. They couldn't even have a conversation without some distraction.
Nowadays everyone has an earbud in their ear playing a podcast, music, or audiobook. Every task has to be accompanied by audio. People avoid social interaction by listening to something. Etc etc.
There are huge benefits to doing chores in silence or being outside without segregating your sense of sound.
It's up there with social media.
I'd be really curious if any mental health professionals have studied people with anxiety conditions and how much audio they listen to throughout the day.
It was either Radiolab or this American life that aired an episode about how the Sony walkman changed society forever. I think they were really onto something.
I was at a bathhouse the other night and these two people were both playing videos, out loud, on their phones while having a conversation. They couldn't even have a conversation without some distraction.
Nowadays everyone has an earbud in their ear playing a podcast, music, or audiobook. Every task has to be accompanied by audio. People avoid social interaction by listening to something. Etc etc.
There are huge benefits to doing chores in silence or being outside without segregating your sense of sound.
It's up there with social media.
I'd be really curious if any mental health professionals have studied people with anxiety conditions and how much audio they listen to throughout the day.
It was either Radiolab or this American life that aired an episode about how the Sony walkman changed society forever. I think they were really onto something.