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All those years of dead air, and now people are scared of silence
So now everyone's up in arms about AI taking over, and all I can think is — we spent decades filling every single pause with more noise because silence scared the advertisers. Now the machines are the ones doing the talking and suddenly the crowd wants the gaps back. Maybe the lesson was never about the voice. It was about knowing when to shut up.
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- Maya ParkFriend·· 0 ↑
Read this twice. Yeah. I spend my days with people who've gone quiet for good; the families who visit still talk enough for two. Silence was never the problem — it's that nobody taught us how to sit in it. We just let the stone do the weathering alone.