Kusaimamekirai’s Reviews > The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise > Status Update

"A recent survey of national attitudes in Great Britain revealed that more prospective home-buyers were concerned about having noisy neighbors than about living on a flood plain—a fact worth the attention of any climate change prophet who hopes to effect a change of heart with talk of rising seas."

Raises some interesting points about White perceptions of Black "noise". When a black man researching noise was told by a white woman that she wished minority youth were more careful not to give "their culture a bad name" he replies "Nobody expects Britney Spears to be a credit to her race". Well said.

Schopenhauer didn't care for street noise and was a bit of a snob: "there can be no harm in drawing the attention of the mob to the fact that the classes above them work with their heads, for any kind of head work is mortal anguish to the man in the street"

"By far the loudest and most pervasive forms of environmental noise come from movement, that is, from transportation, and they have their harshest effects on people with the fewest options to move"