Interesting, MEs always make me giggle.
Forgive me, I'm asking us to forget the issues of level, reproduction systems, radio, attention span, genre and all that other stuff y'all ME types have been kicking around, oh, and ethics too.
Kill me for what I'm about to say, it's vaccuous at best, insightless at worst but something everyone has to deal with when putting trends, sicknesses, breast size and ego into context: The environment.
At the shop we have an old book called "The Tuning of the World" and it discusses sound, it's effects on society and some of the history behind how civilization was glued together by sound. How in earlier days the Church bell and Town crier were the loudest things one would hear. Today, given our whirring, buzzing, beeping, humming society we are constantly bombarded by sound, so much so that the town crier wouldn't be heard a half a block away in most instances, hell they've even got cable access for that crap now. So if there is a bake sale, you better hope aunt Betty tells you about it 'cause the church bell and the crier are now merely part of our environmental noise floor.
Where am i going with this?
Y'all know already, I'm just here to remind you that to ignore the surrounding environment whether societal, droning or pornographic is ignoring the foundation of any sort of rhetoric/polemic.
Now that I've got that off my chest I'll disappear again under my plate.
"I like my shit! I like it loud! I got the box that can rock the crowd!"---Lyrics from a tune Brad will be squashing in less than 2 weeks.