I feel so seen, especially the last two sentences! 
“It is one of our problems that as we become crowded together, the sounds we make to each other, in our increasingly complex communication systems, become more random-sounding, accidental or incidental, and we have trouble selecting meaningful signals out of the noise.
One reason is, of course, that we do not seem able to restrict our communication to information-bearing, relevant sig-nals. Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.”
– Lewis Thomas
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