The Scream of Things.

Dear reader, this is an age of elimination; Man is a painless extractor. He has extracted much of the thought from the brain, the perspiration from inspiration, the sweat from the brow, the debt from the cow (?), and the Put from the Take. Also, he has converted concentration to syncopation, cherubic content to cubic content, happiness to “snappiness,” and imagination to agitation, imitation and the Talkies. He has denaturalised Nature, aerated the air, substituted sport for thought, speedom for freedom, mass extinction for class distinction, and Thought for Food for Food for Thought. He has short-circuited the past and the future, and blown out the fuse on the switchboard of the present. In less short-circuitous parlance, he has peeled the pericardium of Progress to lighten her load and promote pace. But in so doing he has omitted to eliminate Noise from the Scream of Things.