Is it true that the Community Information Centres, Churches and other noise makers have a deeper motive to blast and belch dangerously high sound levels?.
I have taken the following paragraphs from: http://www.noiseoff.org/tyranny/chapter.01.03.php
“This innate desire to make noise and to inflict noise on others may be one explanation of the electronic noise explosion. That the rapid growth of television and stereo is likely more than a hunger for culture is indicated in a paper by Dr. H. Angus Bowes presented before the Psychiatric Research Association in 1957.
As reported in Time Magazine, his “Psychopathology of the Hi-Fi Addict” contained this revealing passage: “Naturally, the less organized will treat their hi-fi set rather like the emotionally immature treat a car—as an expression of aggression, as a power symbol. To many [hi-fi] has a sexual connotation. Perhaps in the twiddling of knobs, there may be a masturbatory equivalent. Certainly the ability to take control of a situation relieves anxiety and what control is given to the manipulator of a hi-fi apparatus when, with a flick of the wrist, he may attenuate his treble, emphasize his bass, turn down the volume to a whisper, or blast the neighbors with a Niagara of sound.”
Manufacturers of audio equipment are not unaware of the needs they are satisfying. A Fisher Radio advertisement offered “Power! Power! The power to unleash wattage and make an almighty noise is a favorite fantasy of the hi-fl extremist…Take, for example, the devastatingly powerful Fisher system…The 700-T and the two XP-18s can blast the roof off your house if you have an itchy volume-control finger.”
