Arthur Schopenhauer on Noise (Misophonia)
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This is an appreciation video for Schopenhauer's underrated essay "On Noise", part of the Parerga and Paralipomena. We explore and appreciate this grumpy old man's disgust and irritation at all the noise and disturbances of living in the big city. Whips, crying children, barking dogs. Schopenhauer hated it all. But through his irritation and philosophical influence, he did become one of the first modern, Western philosophers to champion animal rights. How? Find out by watching this video, or reading the essay: weltgeist.tv/noise .
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The essay is not an example of grumpiness.
The whole point of the essay is about noise interfering with intellectual thought as he makes clear. The essay isn't that erudite. It's pretty clear what he's saying
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As Schopenhauer says of those claiming to be unaffected by noise, be wary too of the empty boasting of so-called “multitaskers.”
people whose minds have nothing in them to distract from the task(s) at hand
True!
"Noise kills thoughts"
I cannot agree more. I was actually talking about it with my friend. I love music, especially metal and all it's variants and lately I was listening to brutal death slam metal and black metal, technical etc. in a car or in a shower. It was fun for a while and I literally blasted my thoughts out of my head while headbanging to the music. I started feeling disconnected... I already disconnected a lot because of my surfing and video game addictions that fluctuate between casual and hardcore. Same with jogging. I used to always wear galaxy buds but found myself distracted when thinking or losing my breathing rhythm.
Anyways I really needed the pause from all of this. I listen to nothing while in the car, not even a radio, listen to my thoughts in the shower, having conversations with myself, daydream, plan, meditate just listening to water coming down and enjoying the hot shower. I also drive for work so I listened to many podcasts on yt and always had to have something going on. Today I put on maybe one or two and when they finish I just enjoy the silence.
I can really relate to Schopenhauer. Constant noise, music, entertainment etc. makes us LOSE ourselves and even our identity and it can be scary because you might feel like you might not get yourself back, your creativity and thoughts.
Good content as always! Cheers.
I actually record videos to kinda ‘meditate’ to
The 2nd most popular is currently dead space which I’ve been listening to whenever I need to meditate
I don't think this is what the essay is about. Instead, I think it relates only to the sounds that have no correlation with the activity one is engaged with.
I also appreciate metal, but I listen to it occasionally on a hi fi ( sometimes in the dark ), not on earbuds all the time whilst doing something else. If I'm out side I'll never listen to music, I'll listen to my surroundings. Sometimes I've let metal wash over me and let the complexity turn into white noise, and I have found doing that is like meditation, I go into a strange state between sleep and being awake. Sometimes after I've listened to a good piece of music ( or read a good passage in a book ), I'll lie in silence and think about it.
Sometimes it good to be able to switch off from life.
Their is a connection between intelligence and being annoyed by ( unwanted ) intrusive noise.
I just had a similar epiphany when on a run. I do MMA and realized I will not have this extra music to boost or guide me when im in the ring. I take it off halfway now because I truly do love music but when I need to dig deep I need my thoughts alone.
@@codbmc using epiphany in the first sentence, a bold start
I wish my neighbors appreciated peace and quiet the way I do.
I can relate,wish mine would move out!
Lived in my area for years. About 3 weeks ago, the businesses in a mini-strip mall so to speak decided they needed someone with a leaf blower to blow leaves and whatnot away. He starts pretty early on weekdays and about 9:30am on weekends. I would like to wrap that fucking thing around his head. Thoughtless asshole.
Your solution is a mix between bleach and ammonia.
@@TheRuthdobson For me or them? lol
@Infinite Shoeblack Yes each to their own. Some more civilized than others.
Just beautiful. Excellently narrated. The voice over is so good. The deep-throat voice, and the clear pronunciation of the words spoken by the narrator collectively make this video quite valuable. Schopenhauer is one of my favorite philosophers. This video is not less than a feast for me therefore. Thank You Weltgeist!
Thanks for the great compliment
And now, unto my bucket-list:
•Compliment a women by saving she has a beautiful deep-throat voice that adds value to my ears.
"If nature meant for man to reason, she would not have given him ears" - Schopenhauer
The essays in parerga and paralipomena are very interesting to read. My favourite one is "psychological observations", Schopenhauer ties everything together perfectly.
My favorite would be "On the Doctrine of the Indestructibility of our True Nature by Death" but they're all great in their own ways.
If Dante were alive today he might mention in the contemporary Inferno that Lucifer's ass blew out the sound of a leaf blower and barking hounds.
like it, very good! the futility of the leaf blower, at least it immediately tells you much of what you need to know about its owner. i sometimes remark that an annoying person probably came from that same area.
A leaf blower and garbage trucks backing up.
@@nickfranklin6495, battery-powered leafblowers are a blessing to both the owner of the machine *and* his neighbors.
I needed this. Thank you. I had not heard that any philosopher had written about noise. I will look into it more now. Also, the most legendary mathematician and wizard of war inventions in the ancient world, Archimedes was recorded to have gotten angry when he was disturbed while working on one of his complex problems or designs, all the way up till the Roman soldier killed him for scolding him at being disturbed.
The “whips” near my home are the annoying kids who make loud noises constantly from afternoon till night and at night the dogs start barking at around 2 am,
I think I should change my neighbourhood.
Thank you for this channel. It's a life-saver that helps the mind to survive and perhaps rise above the noise of everyday life. Please do carry on
I have been having this discussion with people for most all of my conscious 69 years on the planet. It is a simple question: "Why do you always have the television turned on? Why is there always music playing? Why do you love being in a crowded bar with all that endless chatter?" And on and on and on. And every single time, with no exceptions--when I have been able to get others to actually sit and have an "intelligent" discussions (and that is indeed, to state it bluntly, rare as hell)--the answer has always been the same: "To drown out all that noise in my head." Yes, they so hate the "sound" of their own thinking that they settle for anything, any other noise at all, to drown it out.
Don't misunderstand. The endless cacophony of thoughts and "voices" inside my own head is maddening...but that is my personal hell.
And since this taps into the darkest side of who I am--not the "me" I like but I am stuck with the guy, after all--this is when I like to imagine that if there is an afterlife then hell will be a place of eternal silence, the absence of all external sounds, and total isolation, removed from anyone and everyone else and you will be isolated, alone with the solitude of your soul and those inner demons.
Time to cut to the chase: The collective is hell. The human animal, clumped together in cities, is hell. People, so at ease with car horns, people yelling, screaming, "music" playing everywhere all the time (as if hip-hop/rap should dare be called "music"), thousands of people at a ball game all cheering and screaming...anything and everything to avoid...the peace and quiet.
What is it about peace and quiet that the human animal so hates?
Answer that and you have solved the riddle of life.
Pleasure to read this comment
the collective is hell, like that. collectivism certainly is where most of it springs from. i wonder how much of history has been rewritten. i notice that the ancients did not bat an eyelid at slavery. is it possible that it was indeed widespread, possibly the masses were happy slaves, not whipped or behind bars. if a child had not shown any sign of will by say the age of 7 he was moved into the slave strata of life. the reasoning being that this person is a born follower, resents having to make decisions or responsibility, does not want to stick out, just wants to be part of the herd, isnt creative, just interested in what amusements are put in front of them, is not curious or inquisitive, rejects intellectual thought. this separation allowed the thinkers to flourish to the benefit of mankind. this caste system could only work if it applied to all regardless of the parents standing. similarly, as we know, the curse of a psychopath can be born into any family regardless of how mentally healthy the parents are or their nurture.
it may have been concluded that the masses are only needed by the deviant parasites striving to control and live off the backs of others. the masses are trained to adore their masters. the masses are the mindless enemy ready to be turned on all others at a moments notice.
the healthy minded ancients may have worked out that the mindless masses were dangerous and were being mobilized by the deviants to cause chaos. making them happy slaves was an attempt at a deterrent, the ancient nuclear arms race. healthy souls on one side, evil on the other, with the mass missiles in the middle.
the ever present problem is that people never recognise that there are always psychopaths and other mischief-makers present within both sides intent on setting off conflict between two or more groups. this is why seemingly content peaceful people so frequently go to war.
the deviant priesthood may have introduced democracy to build economies of scale and fully harness the masses as they did not want to share power with the other functioning parts of the populace.
later came feudalism ie ALL non-aristocrat parasites are slaves, and not so happy slaves. it appeared to go away, possibly while new economies of scale were sought. renaissance and industrial revolution was a necessary period of growth to build the technocracy of today. now neo-feudalism is back on the horizon
What is it about peace and quiet that the human animal so hates? answer - they have to face their self, not always pretty. imagine having no thoughts of your own other than babble from the abyss - now you feel sorry for the majority, dont you?
@@nickfranklin6495
Once upon a time, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I did sorta kinda "feel sorry" for 'em. But at the same time I was sorta kinda jealous and envious. One quick trip to the past tells this sordid tale the best:
My now ex-wife and I hadn't been married long (married on Saturday 09/02/72 we separated Monday 11/26/79...07 years o2 months 24 days...and thirty minutes if a man was somewhat inclined to be OCD as hell about such matters)...and the first thing I noticed (well, the "first" not having to do with sexual preferences) was the woman would roll out of bed and turn on the radio or the television and oh my God woman what the hell is your problem? She was the first person to give words to the thing: "I can't stand the quiet." And me? Hell, the only time it has even been "quiet" inside Mr. Brain is when I am lost in the arms of a woman. (Yep, it may well indeed be that I am the one with some serious "psychological" issues.)
But I made peace with my "inner demons" a long, long time ago. It remains that external noise of the world that is truly, no hyperbole now, my personal hell on earth. And the earthlings keep breeding like rats in cages and the noise keeps getting louder and louder. And yeah, even worse if we were to begin to qualify "noise" according to "types" of noise meaning, for example, those damned trains that roll down the tracks half-mile from my house? It took awhile but I "adapted". Hip-hop/rap music? Kill 'em all or drive ice-picks into my ears but please, dear God, make it all stop! Or maybe this way: Sitting on my porch at 0200 is the only time I ain't wishing the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would come bursting through the clouds and end all this madness. Yes, humans, asleep, are tolerable. Awake? Not so much.
And see? Another rant because second only to being lost in a woman's arms (and training in the martial arts) is this, writing all this madness down because then Mr. Brain has to focus and he is at least a little bit happy, enjoying that brief respite from such a noisy damned world. And then people seem "surprised" when I tell 'em I have been writing in a journal that is now over 8 million words long...and I shut up and go away so YOU can now have some peace and quiet.
Nick, you stay safe and be well.
This channel is SO GOOD. Thank you!
I work in software development, and the incessant Teams notifications break my concentration. It's starting to create a stressful environment to such an extent that I actually think it makes me less productive, rather than more.
Are you working remotely, or in an office environment with coworkers?
@@goodun2974 I have two coworkers in my office, but I collaborate with other people abroad and in other cities.
The worst is when there's enough people for there to be regular 1-minute conversations in the chat; even worse if your phone is connected.
Watching this whilst the builders are upstairs for the next 2 weeks
Your insight into Schopenhauer and other philosophers I find delightful. I can't seem to find explanations this clear and straight forward anywhere else. 👍👍👍
I work in a very noisy open plan office, hours of my time are wasted with useless distractions. The cracking of a whip would be nothing by comparison. Excellent video.
A lot of people make fun of cubicles. Joe Rogan has mentioned them over and over. I've often thought, he must have no idea what the modern open office environment is like. It's as if everyone were expected to set up shop in a cafeteria. No privacy, very little space. I'd infinitely prefer a cubicle, which is basically a smaller, cheaper facsimile of an actual office. The 'open office' is no office at all. And they lie about why they do it. It's not about productivity or team synergy or any of that bullshit. It's cheaper. You can fit more people in a small space. You can also more easily keep an eye on everyone so you know no one is slacking off. So rather than teamwork it's about brute economics and management's control over workers.
Please, keep these videos coming.
Thank you for the video and essay.
My pleasure!
Wow, such a good video. Thanks for creating it. This video made my day as I was browsing from agony caused by misophonia.
Nowadays we don't have horses. But damn these vehicle drivers are annoying with their music and sound signals.
Thank you! Yes, the modern world is probably much worse than 19th century Frankfurt...
@@WeltgeistYT which shows its all about how we interpret through our lenses and should live (responsibly) more in the now. we need to consider that what we view as tiresome, annoying, boring, not as good as it should be, today may be remembered as 'the good times' in ten years time. in ten years time we'll have less youth and those in power will exercise yet more control and have reduced the slack known as 'life' to an even narrower definition. this is why 'what man is' is the most important, the other two categories can be taken away in a heartbeat. enjoy the fact that you have it, while you still have it
There was an old tv show episode, Twilight Zone or (more likely) Outer Limits perhaps, where a horse thief was about to be hanged in the Old West until a scientist experimenting with time travel reached back in time and rescued the guy, bringing him to 1950's New York The criminal cowboy tried to escape but the noise level of New York nearly incapacitated him. (kind of a variation on the Oxbow Incident short story, I guess).
If this man had to live in our world of technology, he would drop dead from stress.
Listening and learning from you, and Mr. Schopenhauer… Has been and will continue to be, a respite… It’s almost as when I’m listening, I’m walking through the woods, and my imagination at the same time… Thank you… Be good wherever you are!
thank you for this video, you have done something worthy, 'noise' is music to my ears! my hearing itself isnt that great but the hum of computers, fridge freezers, air conditioning is like grit on the mind - always amazed that most hardly notice it. this i understand also relates to our natural frequency/resonance, which i guess is also why a beautiful piece of music (doesnt have to be classical) causes that flush of fire across the brain and hair to stand on end. walking alone is best, always amazed (more than annoyed of course) when youre in beautiful woods and theres another 'walker' out of sight who incessantly speaks at the top of their voice, clearly not pausing to take in a spec of the beauty and tranquility that surrounds them. 'if youre an attention seeker, go somewhere busy, otherwise stop talking and realise why you have been prompted to go into nature' - mind boggling! love the style of these videos and appreciate the time and effort put in to making a concise non fluffy or self important summary/intro to Schopenhauer's topics of observation and philosophy. as a result i have made a couple of purchases and also subscribed to your channel. people who see life this way are heavily unappreciated at any time but particularly at todays extreme point of the pendulum swing in history. the other 99.999% in todays unreality NEED your company more than ever, even if they are too ignorant to recognise or let you know, this is why you must extract payment of some kind, otherwise withhold. never try to give unless its to a loved one. like Schopenhauer, you may have to be painfully patient, but happiness/contentment/being valued, whatever you are looking for, should be first found within as noted many times in this video. in any case, you will only be reminded that it doesnt matter what others think, but we all need something from others, otherwise why are we in the material world?
like the comment on reading the essay in full 'its only three pages' you can do it, just concerntrate ha ha
I love him even more now. If only he knew the pain of constantly having to listen to the sound of neighbours radios. For 2 years I've been unable to get a single day of peace. On the plus side, I made working from home impossible so now I'm unemployed so I get to spend my days seeking out the silent places! :p
So living on busy streets has always been unnecessarily infuriating, even before the invention of cars.
And don’t even get me started on motorbikes.
Fantastic analysis. Subscribed!
Thanks and welcome. Much appreciated.
Hey Siri, define irony
Siri: irony is a car commercial interrupting an audio essay on Schopenhauer’s _on noise_
I love this! Thank you
You're welcome!
Me too
Oh my gosh, the loud whip sound is probably the equivalent of the loud cars, honking their horns, or mufflers when drivers step on the gas. THOSE SOUNDS DRIVE ME ABSOLUTELY INSANE! (Other sounds as well, but I have a lot of speeding muffler-lovers who drive on my street) I love Shopenhauer. I never thought I'd ever hear of someone I could relate to until him. Thank you for your educational videos!
He had the cracking of the whip, and we have phone and computer notifications.
Try living in my neighborhood, where my neighbors alternate blasting objectionable Spanish language dance music.
No wonder that I’m so pissed off all the time.
Noise vs eardrums.
If Schopenhauer was living in Latin America, he would have an epileptic fit with all the cars blaring their megawatt speakers at all hours of the day to advertise something or just to let others hear their taste of music at 3am.
Excellent videos.
Thank you
I like stories like that! Nice vid!🤓🙏
In one of Alan Watts lectures, he was basically saying that noise is gods music in it's different expressions, and one could learn to become one with it. I can see, and understand it, but my ego says no. I'm with Schopenhauer.
For the love of... I was going full tryhard on French lessons last night and there was this vapelord in his WRX tearing up the roads nearby for HALF an hour!
I'm starting to think I am the reincarnation of this dude.
im inlove with your voice. i dont know why. pls make more vids about shopenhauer.
I wonder what mr. Schopenhauer would say having your neighbor using every day a most hateful leaf-blower!
Noisy and environmentally unfriendly. What is wrong with a simple yard broom? That's good enough for me. I do not care for noisy gardening machines.
@@PeterGregoryKelly Zen saying: “When you sweep the garden, you are sweeping your mind."
@@PeterGregoryKelly yeah, but you look cool and so sophisticated proudly wafting a loud device that blows leaves from A to B (then you sweep it up), and you get to look semi-official by wearing SAFETY goggles and possibly a high-viz jacket because its dangerous work, youre so modern and clever
Another awesome vid from Schopenhaur_Enthusiast. Joking aside I do like the Schopenhauer content lol
There's more Schopenhauer planned for sure...
NOISE! Don't I know it!! When you have a severe case of tinnitus and hyperacusis that never stops for even one second in the last ten years, then you will know what a mind killer noise can be that destroys not only thoughts, but can make your life a living HELL!! Thank you Mr Schopenhauer where ever you are!!
I relate to this man, very much.
And I thought there was something wrong with me for getting so irritated by certain noises! 🤔
You’re not alone
@@WeltgeistYT I'm about as alone a person can possibly get. And I like it that way. 🤓🤫🤔😲🤯
I find going for walks "away from it all" in nature I can not really get away from some traffic droning noise and construction noises. Human beings are really bad neighbours. The bad neighbours from hell. Social scientists and professional therapists of all kind have a horror of anyone finding solitude. It seems the whole of human society is arrayed against anyone being able to think quietly and maybe think what is not written down on the corporate hymn sheet down to the woke on social media who punish any digression with being "cancelled". We must all march in lock step.
@@PeterGregoryKelly absolutely correct, they hate the idea of an individual having peace, you can only conclude that it IS indeed deliberate policy. if you have been paying attention you will notice that they are finding any excuse to encroach on your solace - scuzzballs working for local (marx1st, arent they all?) councils are a particularly insidious vile example of this
Music is good for easy, repetitive jobs. It seems like a trance where you stop thinking and work like a machine.
For something difficult you need peace and a wide awake mind.
very informative 👍
Well I must be a little bit of a philosopher , although i have never thought of myself as such...sitting in my garden watching the bees and hover flies on the wildflowers I'd sown and the sun slowly arcing above me then suddenly next doors three dogs start barking behind the seven foot fence and their owner telling them to shut up at the top of her fishwife voice (they never do) is her way of announcing to all and sundry she's home...(I make noise therefore I am is her philosophy it seems)....it pisses me off.
beautifully put, on one side harmony, on the other belligerence. glad youre not turning the other cheek. in a healthy society you would be able to point out her error in a fair conversation between two humans and she might reflect 'youre right, i didnt think' and that would be the end of it
@@nickfranklin6495 Ah but she is of the type that revels in any kind of attention.....arguing with her is like rolling around in the muck with a pig, the pig would like it but you wouldn't....someone once said "argument appeals to reason" and she is totally bereft of reason.
"I shriek, therefore I am"?! For some people, this does seem to be their raison d'etre.
The cracking of whips are preferable to loud motorcycles obnoxiously revving their way down a quiet residential street at midnight or later .
The car horn is the modern whip crack and it’s awful
The horn is the least used piece of equipment on any and every car I've owned.
The worst thing is how people on my road insist on using the horn as a hello and goodbye(I live near a school). I've been tempted to follow them home and beep outside their house
Imagine Schopenhauer attempting to deal with all of the noise in the present day! I've come to accept that I have "misophonia", as I hate noise in general, but there are certain ones that absolutely drive me mad, such as whistling, finger snapping, people having one way conversations into their phone. If I were to go back in time, the cracking of the whip I'm certain would not have been a favorite, either!
I read the book itself and the last chapter was hilarious lol. As much as he despise the noise of whips' cracking caused by wagon drivers, I similarly, detest the noise that happened to evolve therefrom, namely, CARS HONKING!! I spend the majority of my free time in my bedroom, which has windows facing a busy street, so you can imagine how frequent the honking is... I never got used to it, now I read during the morning when it's quiet, and blast metal music during the day lol.
Schopenhauer : whips :: me : sirens
4:00
Just create an environment of meditation and quietness
Because quietness make you think more
5:50
Don't crack the whip the same all the time show a whip lesser to make them understand the real whips
the more i hear of this man the more i like
That's a long shot, but knowing the devotedness and embodiment Nietzsche practiced with the words of Schopenhauer, wouldn't it be correct to assume his famous "breakdown" in Turin could have been related to the very phenomenon of whipping in recollection of that very essay? Maybe he convinced himself his mind indeed was shattered by this noise to the point he underwent an actual collapse?
The man justs wants some peace, I can relate to that
If a crack of the whip bothers him he should hear some rap music.
No I see why they show him as the grumpy old man rather than when he wrote his masterpiece
06:18 what is the name of the painting?
Very much in sympathy with AS on this, even if it is cranky.
What would Schopenhauer think of today's world of advertising and social media? I think he would be horrified.
Agreed
Leaf-blowers are the bane of human existence.
My man hated the sound of transportation methods the way I hate loud cars today
*Wise old man.
It’s unfortunate I seem to the same personality as this guy minus the ginormous brain and ego
3rd video of yours I have just watched. Nice 👍🏻 Now I have to sub to you too! I completely relate to Schopenhauer. Whether that is a good thing, deep down, I'm not too sure. I'm going to assume that he was probably a introvert and to his own detriment? Maybe someone who knows more about him, and for whatever reason is also reading this will let a girl know?
And loud people.!
Hi Weltgeist, would Schopenhauer share the same resentment of bright city lights seen in today's world?
Definitely
*cough* John von Neumann *cough*
The mad lad loved to work under chaotic and noisy environment.
From Wikipedia:
"In Princeton, he received complaints for regularly playing extremely loud German march music on his phonograph, which distracted those in neighboring offices, including Albert Einstein, from their work.[56] Von Neumann did some of his best work in noisy, chaotic environments, and once admonished his wife for preparing a quiet study for him to work in. He never used it, preferring the couple's living room with its television playing loudly."
Fascinating
But as you see - Einstein didn't like it.
Oh, I bet I know what he'd say about leaf blowers.
Wonder what he’d think about purposely loud cars and motorbikes.
If my memory is correct he wrote about witnessing someone beating a horse that greatly upset him.
But may be my recollection is wrong,guess that comes with ageing.
For sure, one does not think deeply or seriously about anything existential without being still, isolating ourselves from all the 'noise', and making the effort to have focused thought. The Bible says, "Be still and know that I am God," and Wisdom personified in the Proverbs says that, "I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions" and, unlike the RCC, encourages critical thinking when we read things like, "Come now, let us reason together..." Today, we live in a culture of 'noise' and I'm not talking about mere 'sounds', but endless and often mindless distractions. Is the unexamined life not worth living - or just to busy to afford us the time to stop and examine it? _Origins? Meaning? Morality? Ultimate destiny?_
“Schopenhauer you doing!” Teller when he finally speaks to Penn
2:27 that ma desktop wallpaper 😎
These great men make me feel so unintelligent
The most intelligent men are never concerned about being "intelligent" in itself.
i feel this bro
god thanks noice canceling ear buds exist
*smoke alarm chirps in background*
Everything he says about what stupid people are like I knew by watching family members and other kids in school when I was a kid. I think like him.
Same here. I had many of his thoughts before I had even heard of the man.
During the 150 years since Albert passed away, medical science has declared a new condition called autism. One of it's classical symptoms is oversensitivity to noise.
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Love Schopenhauer. Also like Rammstein though.
Same!
@@WeltgeistYT :)
Ear plugs, SON!!! Tood bad they didn't have any in his time. Nowadays, I put them on before I leave the house so I can tone down my experience of the animals.
The whip in my life is angle grinders in a welding shop. The most annoying sound in the world.
Worn out lawnmowers, leaf blowers and chainsaws, operated by weekenders with O.C.D. Flight school or bored pilots of Cessna's buzzing around suburbia on a nice day. Most mid to high pitched unnecessary sounds created by man or beast can irritate the free flow of creative thought. I find most of these annoyances when operated or expressed by thoughtful users in efficient or rhythmic means to be fine and dandy.
Thanks for sharing, noise is a distraction to their inner thoughts which they can not or will not be examined and understood. They are the slave class who find thinking an audacious nature, they cannot accept responsibility in their actions or inaction but rather glory in being told how to behave, feel, and respond to the inner and outer world.
To me arguments, or politics on TV are the worst type of noise. I can endure birds chirping or classical music or engines or even a sports match, but human speech makes me tune to it instead of my own thoughts.
He's not wrong. Some noise is soothing, but others are a kind of sensory assault. The way our lower brains are hardwired to react to certain noises means that even if we are ignoring them, they can still cause us unconscious stress. Noise can even be used as a form of torture. Personally I've found that the dumber a person is, the less bothered they are by noise, and the less they care about inflicting noise on others.
Hard to believe this guy told everyone how to be "happy".
I wonder what he'd have said about heavy metal. My 16-year-old is a guitarist.
Up until relatively recently I didn't know hypersensitivity to certain noises is an actual medical condition called misophonia. I had to move house a few times because I was getting irritated by my neighbours even though I was told by my friends that the noise levels are not unreasonable and I'm just overreacting. That's when I realised I'm just being abnormal. I can't help it, it seems like my brain will wake me up in the middle of the night to let me know of the lowest, quietest, most muffled sound that a normal person can't detect and it would keep me up all night because the stress levels will keep by heart pounding and I can't go back to sleep. And fuck screaming children, little pieces of shit.
@@janneroppola_supersigma I bought a cheap fan and replaced the plastic blades with a straw. That creates just the right level of white noise. I tried plenty of things without any success. I don't experience this or related "problems" when I'm visiting my parents and stay in their house, so I think this is all rooted elsewhere and just surfaces up as a symptom of a deeper issue. I think treating it would be pointless, but the fan thing does the trick for now.
@@janneroppola_supersigma Good shout, I never thought of doing that. I'll try a sleepover at a friend's house to see if that makes a difference. You could be right as I do live alone and spend a lot of time at home, so could be something to do with that. Cheers!
I don’t know about the crack of a whip, I’m currently trying to deal with my street of social delinquent’s yelling “It’s Coming Home” now that kills concentration and crawls into your subconscious call me cynical but I hope they lose, give me a little chuckle. Anyway I feel ya Sir Shopenhauer daymn do I feel ya
Looks like Ur has been granted 😁
it was only going to end in tears, but it gave them something to believe in, until tomorrow at least!
are these the same people who stood in their doorways grinning and banging pots because it was 8pm? they may have also have decided of their own free will to place their 2 yr olds artwork on their living room window alongside colourful rainbows in an act of flagrant individuality. you may have also seen them on social media taking a bucket of ice cold water and throwing it over themselves, they dont know why they did it but alot of their peers also did it, allegedly it was spontaneous and fun, its all (the new) normal they'll tell you
He would have been driven mad if he lived in out modern world. Noise pollution is very popular! Rarely does it come up in the media in any serious way. But the effect of noise is a serious problem.
Schopenhauer would probably climb a clock tower if he lived in the Bronx😂
Thank God for noise cancelling headphones! Or Bose.
I am extremely sensitive to noice , especially obnoxious people .
The great irony is that Schopenhauer would have hated youtube. Wanted it destroyed. Maybe even the whole internet.
Cursed as an adjective has two syllables.
I can so identify with him.