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- Author: vinylroom.substack.com
- Full Title:: Sign of the Times
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://vinylroom.substack.com/p/sign-of-the-times?r=37rihm&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
- Read date:: 2025-03-23
Highlights
The problem, of course, is not so much the talking, or the listening, or the reels or video-calling: it’s the selfishness and entitlement of doing it all on loudspeaker, in public, and then acting surprised when someone has the audacity to say something. (View Highlight)
Whether it’s a hangover of disastrous lockdown experiments, social media compulsion or just plain stupidity, I see no reason why the rest of us should be privy to the sounds you are dictating your phone to make, except in real cases of life or death (which, last time I checked, Elton John —bless him— was not). Loud phones are a cancer of modern society. I don’t use this word lightly. I (View Highlight)