Picard and Noise

"The Radio" seems to be an article written by an angry old man. He sees the radio as evil and detrimental to human learning and functioning. He infers that it destroys the human capacity for silence. "Production of noise is the main concern," according to Picard. He sees no benefit to being able to spread news or even the enjoyment of a baseball game. All he sees is a world where silence no longer exists--where silence has fallen victim to constant influences provoked by sound. With the radio, man was distracted from being able to truly experience learning and life as a whole. Today's world is marked by constant sound, and, when sound is absent, human beings have become accustomed to feeling discomfort. I hate silence--it produces a feeling of awkwardness for me in conversation, and a reason to fall asleep in the absence of noise. The human body has adapted to filtering information and blocking out unnecessary stimuli. Noise is probably one of the biggest things it blocks. We tend to not notice background noise, but when it goes missing, we all are taken aback.