Listen to the lovely silence here in DC
Loss of it is seen as a budding public health crisis, while inspirational entrepreneur sells it in headsets
Vol. 1 issue 16
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For premium subscribers such as yourself who might have missed the article on the importance of preserving places like the Canyonlands in Utah for their silence, I am revisiting it to show that docu-mentaling it when I did was not in isolation. It seems that The New Yorker and other places are also exploring the dangers of a world without quiet. They even explore it as a public health crisis.
Meanwhile, there is this interesting piece in yesterday’s DCist about silent monument tours here in the Capitol region. I am intrigued, although I do take exception with the notion that they are actually “silent” since what they actually do is channel meditations, soothing music, original piano compositions, and poetry into your heads by way of a wireless headset as you mindfully walk from monument to monument, in a group.
It’s puzzling to me that something we once took for granted — peace and quiet and time with our own thoughts to contemplate our world — is now a product…
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