The Noise

[poliphilo]

My mother watches television from just after lunch until she turns in for the night. Today because it's the yearly celebration of militarism Remembrance Sunday she's started earlier. I won't say I never watch with her but mostly I keep my distance. Of course- small house, deaf old lady- I'm never out of earshot. Over the past two and a half years I've come to think of TV as The Noise.

Comments

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

Removed. Bye.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Bye,

Sorry you feel that way. It's been nice knowing you.

[kishenehn.livejournal.com]

One of the saddest things about contemporary life, I think, is the fact that The Noise is omnipresent in so many households nowadays.

I got rid of my TV cable years ago partly because of that ... but I certainly can't be self-righteous, because now I have a radio blaring for most of my waking hours. What do we all have against silence?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We're afraid of ourselves- of the thoughts that can come crowding in if we lower the screens.

Baron David René James de Rothschild forewarned

[onrtrts.livejournal.com]

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

I really do not mind silence at all but then noot all the time.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like silence. I like it a lot.

[lora-diary.livejournal.com]

We don't have any TV at home. But when my mom was alive, we had to buy one, because it was only way to make her do something. She had Alzheimer's disease.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My wife and I got rid of our TV shortly before we moved down here. When we move again we won't be buying one.

[redatt.livejournal.com]

Growing up my mother always had the radio on. I don't think I really knew what silence was or how much I needed it to function until I left home.

Looking back I think my mother was just desperately trying not to drown in her own thoughts. Radio 2 was her buoyancy aid.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My mother had the radio on most of the time when I was a kid. This was before The numbered the BBC radio stations.
I think what she mostly listened to was The Home Service.