While I already know of the importance of getting away from devices, shutting off and getting away from it all, not all of us have that luxury. Kagge seems to be able to escape whenever he pleases.

First of all: yeah, I bet. Fun dinner table convo. Second: Kagge tries to use this story to make a point about the evils of technology, but isn't the actual takeaway here that technology is AMAZING and allowed a DYING MAN TO NAME HIS CHILD ON THE PHONE WITH HIS WIFE FROM MOUNT EVEREST? Dude. There are about 10,000 anecdotes one could use to prove the perils of tech, and you're going with this?Brighton เมืองชายทะเลแสนสดใสทางใต้สุดของเกาะ เราปักหมุดว่าจะไปหน้าผาริมหาดชื่อดัง Seven Sisters ให้จงได้ แผ่นดินตั้งตระหง่านกับท้องทะเลเมื่ออยู่เคียงกันนั้นงดงาม และคุ้มค่าที่จะไปแม้ต้องเสียเวลาเดินทางจากในเมืองเป็นชั่วโมง of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Silence: In the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge Of course, Heidegger could not have predicted the possibilities offered by current technology. He was thinking about cars of 50 horsepower, film projectors and punch-card machines, which were all the rage. But he had an inkling of what might come.) It is easy to assume that the essence of technology is technology itself, but that is wrong. The essence is you and me. It’s about how we are altered by the technology we employ, what we hope to learn, our relationship with nature, those we love, the time we spend, the energy that is consumed and how much freedome we relinquish to technology. Erling Kagge is a philosophical adventurer - or perhaps an adventurous philosopher' - New York Times

Whenever I am unable to walk, climb or sail away from the world, I have learned to shut it out. Learning this took time. Only when I understood that I had a primal need for silence was I able to begin my search for it – and there, deep beneath a cacophony of traffic noise and thoughts, music and machinery, iPhones and snow ploughs, it lay in wait for me. Silence.” A volte mi sono trovato a riflettere sul fatto che le gioie più semplici, come per esempio osservare il muschio sopra un sasso, sono quelle più difficili da descrivere.” Yaklaşık bir yıldır penceremden birkaç binanın yükselişini izliyorum. Toprağın kazılmasını, katların biçimlenmesini. İzlemekle kalmıyor onu dinliyorum da. Müthiş bir gürültü. Pazar sabahları da dahil olmak üzere.. Kulaklarımı tırmalıyor ama uyumaya devam ediyorum. En anden form for luksus er ikke at være tilgængelig. At kunne holde hverdagens støj på afstand er et privilegium.” Words can destroy the atmosphere. They are unsatisfactory. Yes, it is incredible to share grand experiences with others, but talking about it may distance us from what is happening.”Silence, Kagge emphasizes, is not simply the absence of noise, but a "full emptiness, a stillness of the mind." Il silenzio... che cos'è il silenzio? Noi esseri umani del 21° secolo non sappiamo nemmeno se esista, perchè siamo così immersi nel frastuono delle metropoli che macinano strombazzanti automobili, urla, martelli pneumatici, il rombo di una moto ecc... Siamo così anestetizzati dalla tecnologia, che non abbiamo nemmeno un attimo da dedicare al silenzio! L'autore esamina, in 33 risposte, la sua visione del silenzio, come parte fondamentale della vita!