Silence is golden. Noise is plastic. We live in a plastic era: disposable, noisy, and mass-produced. Nothing is worth holding onto, which is convenient because nothing lasts for long anyway. The noise becomes so profuse it penetrates to the cores of our souls, which in turn also become cheap and disposable.
It is only natural, then, that we seek to replace the fading plastic inside our hearts with something newer, furnished with the latest technology and updated with the best software so as to prepare ourselves for success.
Talk used to be cheap. Now it is free. Words are worthless. Nobody pays attention to what they mean. They are only there for ceremonial purposes, a formality to solidify the illusion of communication and dialogue, of thought and evolution. As long as you make noise, it does not matter what you say – in fact, the noisier and crazier the better. The moment you pause to reflect on your words, you are overrun and trampled by the neverending stampede of noise that spills out of the Internet at all hours, even when you sleep.
Even if you turn off your devices – your phone, your computer, your tablet – it continues building and gathering into a rumbling mass that gushes back out the moment you turn them back on. If you refuse to turn them back on, you feel the flood surging inside you, swelling like the earth’s heated oceans, until the jabbering, babbling, cackling inundation pours out of you automatically and your phone, your computer and the Internet turn themselves back on.
What’s left of your original self stands helpless witness as your body opens its mouth, takes hold of keyboard, mouse and touchscreen, and emits a vomiting stream of typing, clicking, and groping – regurgitating noise and consuming it simultaneously.
Freedom of speech and expression are meaningless when you can’t hear anything.
The Christians were wrong. Lucifer does not appear in the form of a snake, a horned devil, or eternal hellfire. He lives inside my TV screen, my computer, my smartphone – and he speaks through endless, nagging noise.
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