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Monday, 1 January 2024

The Fear Of Silence

 Is not new, and not even recent.

Since the earliest broadcasts,   
over a century ago,
the engineers of analogue radio
knew that broadcasting silence
was practically impossible;
the transmitter systems
would simply shut down
if they had no signal to carry.

What is less considered now,
and is how humans respond
to the immersive orgy
of information and choice
that is online, just waiting for us
in an infinite stream
or repetitious doom loop
that we have to learn to turn away from
if we are to be allowed to think clearly
and recognise each other.

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