The Korea Times
There has been outrageous progress in the world over the last century or so. We have, with varying degrees of success and much-needed sensitivity, expanded the franchise of education to women and political agency to the formerly disenfranchised; we have developed a certain delicacy regarding the recognition of diverse groups. Technology is a glowing, 6-inch rectangle that lives in our pockets, granting us instant access to the grand works of civilization and the ability to capture our most precious moments with a resolution that far exceeds the actual quality of the memories themselves. And yet, there is a sense that in the process of acquiring everything, we have misplaced the one thing that wasn’t a thing at all: Silence. For those who have grown up with the internet in their hands and airpods permanently in their ears, it’s perhaps hard to understand how life used to be. Our permanent connection to the digital world means that we are never without entertainment, reels, music, tweets and other tidbits of titillation designed specifically to ensure that not a single millisecond o
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