Now let me make sure I understand this properly.

You pay over $1500 a year to have a cord strung between your house and a huge advertising company. Which connects to a huge, expensive electronic display that you paid hundreds of dollars for.

You spend all your free time passively staring at this device while it beams messages at you.

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The past couple weeks have provided some interesting noise for thought.

Although I’ve always thought of our culture as primarily visual, a confluence of events has convinced me that the attention of my ears is more hotly contested than my eyes. Here’s a few of the events that brought this to the fore, out of the background noise:

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