The Rest is Silence
LDOUS HUXLEY’S book The Perennial Philosophy has been, my holiday reading, and I find it impossible to refrain from quoting from a certain chapter, headed simply "Silence." Huxley says: "The 20th Century is, among other things, the Age of Noise . That most popular and influential of recent inventions, the radio, is nothing but a conduit through which "6 a
pre-fabricated din can flow into our hofnes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the ear-drums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babel of dis-tractions-news items, mutually irrelevant bits of information, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but merely create a craving , for daily or even hourly emotional enemas. And where, as in most countries, the broadcasting stations support themselves by selling time to advertisers ... ."’ But perhaps it would be better to stop the quotation there; let the listener who values his quota of spiritual quietude discover the book and read the rest for himself.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 397, 31 January 1947, Page 10
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171The Rest is Silence New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 397, 31 January 1947, Page 10
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