Besonders angetan hat es mir der für mich bisher nicht zuordenbare Ausschnitt eines Interviews mit David Foster Wallace von 2003 ab 4min40:

There is, … there is an almost dread that comes out, I think, here about having to be alone and having to be quiet and you see that when you walk in, when you walk into most public spaces in America it isn’t quiet anymore. They pipe music through. And the music is easy to make fun of, it’s usually really horrible music. But it seems significant that we don’t want things to be quiet, ever, anymore.