Seems to assume everyone is listening to music, I'd bet it's closer to a 50/50 split between music and podcasts.
I often listen to FM radio, BBC Radio 4 which is primarily speech.
Headphones Everywhere
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#22Here in New York City, 90% of subway riders may be listening to headphones or engrossed in their smartphones, playing games, checking email, etc. I have a feeling it's cut down on altercations and fights, maybe even panhandling and performers. I wonder if there's any data on it or if a similar effect happens elsewhere.
Yet the wardens seem desperate to keep those items out of prisons...
I think the argument is that earphones could be used as a garroting device.
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#23this comes off like such rambling with no real point to it. I suppose if I had to try and find his points they would be: * "headphones are bad because they cause us to be isolated" * "Millennials are seeing themselves as hard done by" The second point might not be what the author means though, but the former has strong tones throughout the piece. I do not agree, headphones are a way of having some level of privacy in…
Definitely true. I didn't read the article, but it sounds like an annoying extrovert asserting the virtues of extrovertism. As an introvert, my mind may have came to that conclusion by paranoia.
You should probably read the article before commenting, especially if you're going to use insults about the author.
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#24I might just not like to hear the loud outside world and block it with headphones.
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#25People on the bus are assholes who just play audio from their speakers. People in my (open plan, of course) office are assholes who have impromptu meetings and boorish conversations all day. People on planes bring their screaming children. Headphones are a necessity.
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#26Reminds me of the seashell ear-thimbles from Fahrenheit 451.
Such an evocative image. Stays with me much more than Clarke's Newspad in 2001.
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#27this comes off like such rambling with no real point to it. I suppose if I had to try and find his points they would be: * "headphones are bad because they cause us to be isolated" * "Millennials are seeing themselves as hard done by" The second point might not be what the author means though, but the former has strong tones throughout the piece. I do not agree, headphones are a way of having some level of privacy in…
Amanda Petrusich is a woman. I'm more surprised that podcasts and audiobooks aren't mentioned. I only listen to music at the gym and at work. When I'm travelling I like to listen to stuff that will push me but when I'm working I just use music to block the noise.
While it's inconsiderate to the author to get her pronouns right, does her being a man or woman have any bearing on the article or the above criticism of it?
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#28A reason that some European countries use in recent laws that ban women from wearing full-face burkas/niqabs, is it stops the wearers interacting/communicating with others.
The same logic implies we should ban public wear of headphones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering
"The key argument supporting this proposal is that face-coverings ... [are] a social hindrance within a society which relies on facial recognition and expression in communication. ... the European Court of Human Rights upheld the French law on 1 July 2014, accepting the argument of the French government that the law was based on "a certain idea of living together.""
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#29Here in New York City, 90% of subway riders may be listening to headphones or engrossed in their smartphones, playing games, checking email, etc. I have a feeling it's cut down on altercations and fights, maybe even panhandling and performers. I wonder if there's any data on it or if a similar effect happens elsewhere.
> Here in New York City, 90% of subway riders may be listening to headphones or engrossed in their smartphones, playing games, checking email, etc.
Plus ca change... https://web.archive.org/web/20151123053907/http://i.dailymai...
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#30this comes off like such rambling with no real point to it. I suppose if I had to try and find his points they would be: * "headphones are bad because they cause us to be isolated" * "Millennials are seeing themselves as hard done by" The second point might not be what the author means though, but the former has strong tones throughout the piece. I do not agree, headphones are a way of having some level of privacy in…
She* doesn't seem to have a problem with headphones per se. She's just sorting out the way that they affect how we listen to music. Read the last paragraph:
Ambling down a city street with headphones on—you know, maybe it’s dusk, maybe it’s midsummer, maybe you had a really nice day—is, without a doubt, one of life’s simplest and most perfect joys. Humans have long enjoyed secret communions with sound, and headphones allow for the development of a particularly private and tender relationship. How headphones’ sudden omnipresence might affect the ways in which musicians attempt to communicate with their audiences—how it might dictate what people require of or appreciate about songs; how it will change the way records are made and produced—is, of course, still being sorted out. It seems possible, though, that we are slowly reconfiguring music as a private pleasure—that, in fact, all pleasures, soon, may be private. We are all the lone stars of secret films, narrated by and in our own minds, and we seek out music that validates that position: separate, but forever plugged in.