A strange initiative: No music day. I decided to observe it, and it was an easy thing to do in such a long working day: I just had to force myself to turn off the radio during the four hours I spent driving to Treviso and back. I listened to the sounds of the motorway, slightly covered by the gentle humming caused by my low-rpm driving style. Silence proved itself a powerful antidote to information overload, in both directions: freeing my mind in preparation of a relevant day at work, slowly reconnecting to my private world while going back.

But the word "silence" has kept coming out so often in the last days, in such a large selection of ways and different meanings…

Vanz mentioned silence as a necessary way to stop for a little while, get out of a never ending alert state and try to look at things for what they are (mainly referring to over-emphasizing crimes committed by immigrants). Paolo agrees, and so do I.

Luca De Biase, outlining the contradiction implied by considering silence a solution to the overwhelming background noise which characterizes this era.

Iskandar (in the comments to an orientalia4all.net post) as a necessary self-restraint about not deliberately telling what had better remain untold. A sort of communication ecology awareness, in the way parents filter the information they take back home from the wild world to their children: dangerous if referred to professional media, possibly sensible if applied to citizens talking from their electronic speaking corners.

And Beppe Grillo, hammering the announcement of the second v-day manifestation, to tell how the information industry is hiding things.

Still a few minutes to midnight. Before going to bed, Bach will provide an adequate transition to Santa Cecilia‘s day.