Sacred Silence

 
     Soon people will speak of silence as they do about a fairy tale.
Man has turned his back on silence.  Day after day he invents machines
and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence
of life, contemplation, meditation.  Cars, airplanes, radios, and atomic
bombs are the latest major triumphs of progress.  Man no longer has
anything essential to do, but he wants to do it at top speed and with
superhuman noise.  He seeks recreation and never realizes that the
robot steering him is actually driving him into catastrophe and nothingness.
Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and
trilling bolster his ego.  His anxiety subsides.  His inhuman void spreads
monstrously like a gray vegetation.
     

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