Living in any Western (and even increasingly so, non-Western countries) today, is like being trapped inside a 45-gallon oil drum (a metal drum large enough to contain an average sized person, and which echoes horrendously when any sound is made inside). Now imagine turning a ghetto blaster on full-blast, while having a multi-channel TV link transmitting full visual media on all of its channels simultaneously. Add a small whirlwind and throw in loose pages from a variety of magazines and newspapers, and one has created a scale model of the media storm with which we are bombarded daily, and which is nigh on impossible to avoid.

We are all, in effect, being forced into a situation where our frazzled, over-stimulated minds just cannot function effectively. One needs quiet to reason, and especially to reflect on thoughts and past experiences.

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