Silence is Golden

NY times: Silence is Golden
Maureen Dowd wrote “I compare it to the zero in mathematics. People think it’s nothing, but actually it’s not. It can be very powerful.”; she uses this piece to discuss the wonder and beauty of silence. she explains how technology can so easily dominate our lives and stop use from "stopping and smelling the roses". she is really trying to use this piece to make her audience see that they have been taken over by technology and "sound". she uses a silent movie that was made this year to show how silence truly is golden and we never really get the chance to experience it very often. she uses a quote from the movie's director to show what an impact silence can have, “They thanked me for letting them hear the silence,” he said. “It was touching to discover that these young people, always with their iPods, could like real silence". however, she also uses this piece to explain how silence has changed. not only have the sounds changed over time, but what was once silence is ow just quiet. it is very difficult to actually ind complete silence our buy world. she quotes Max Picard, a Swiss philosopher, “Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence,”. Dowd appreciates silence and wants her audience to too.