You’re not going crazy—the world is NOISIER than ever. And it feels harder than ever to ESCAPE the never-ending din. But there are ways to keep yourself sane.
Sometimes you want it loud. Sex, concerts, serious cars, and certain movies—the better these things are, the more they leave your ears ringing at the end. You know it’s over with a woman, Harry Crews wrote, when before sex you daintily get undressed on opposite sides of the bed. (“If it’s love, there’s supposed to be some licking and sucking going on.”) A better definition of when things are wilting, sexually, involves acoustics: There’s no longer any screaming. Music especially needs volume to matter. As with Spinal Tap and Elon Musk’s Teslas, you want to be able to turn it up to eleven. This is one argument for rural living; your twenty-ton thumping won’t rattle anyone’s kitchen except your own. Police should be willing to waive speeding tickets if a driver can prove the song he or she was listening to was bliss—the kind of subwoofer-testing anthem Lester Bangs described as “imperative groin thunder.”
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