Quiet

Does it ever seem like when you are trying to concentrate on writing that internet fax, no matter how much willpower you have, different noises will demand your attention? We jerk to the tug of noise like sonic marionettes. There’s good reason for this. Among mammals, hearing developed as an early warning system. There has been a transformation in our relationship to the environment over the millions of years since the prototype for human hearing evolved, but part of our brain hasn’t registered the makeover. We are still sensitive to the noises even if it looks like we are able to stop paying attention to them and it wrecks havoc on our bodies including the cardiovascular system. Of course it is not always possible to completely put ourselves in a cocoon but it would be nice to be able to hear ourselves think.