If everybody paid for high end noise cancelling headphones, people would only be even more oblivious to the world around them. I understand the utility of headphones when working sound for a production or listening to music while your roommates are asleep. It's the people who don't take the buds out of their ears (or the speakers out of their heads) that I question. The ones that you have to forcefully move out of your way because they don't hear the "excuse me" you've said three times and shouted twice.
Several months ago I challenged my friends list to forego headphones for a week and not one did. Too busy building our own bubbles.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2006-02-02 05:15 pm (UTC)If everybody paid for high end noise cancelling headphones, people would only be even more oblivious to the world around them. I understand the utility of headphones when working sound for a production or listening to music while your roommates are asleep. It's the people who don't take the buds out of their ears (or the speakers out of their heads) that I question. The ones that you have to forcefully move out of your way because they don't hear the "excuse me" you've said three times and shouted twice.
Several months ago I challenged my friends list to forego headphones for a week and not one did. Too busy building our own bubbles.