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Add to FavoritesDetermining the high levels of loud music today can be done with special equipment to measure the decibels that surround us each day. From factory noise to the avid concert go-er, noise has reached dangerous high level proportions. Loud noise can affect our moods and hearing, thus affecting our balance and ability to communicate with others. Concert musicians such as Ted Nugent realize these hazards when taking the stage and came out prepared to battle the enormous noise levels that his type of music his band produced. Wearing ear plugs with built in microphones to help him keep things in sync while on stage. This has become a necessity in the music world today and for good reason.
In the younger generation, they close themselves up in their cars and turn the volume up. The high decibels of noise in the cars may attract attention from the out side world but the sound effect is killing their hearing. I do not condemn loud music and I use to listen to loud music too. I was ignorant in my younger years and also thought I would live forever as most teens today think. What good is life if you damage your hearing? It will be a very quiet world that you live in for sure. Hearing loss can not be repaired and once it is lost, it is gone forever.
It was only through my education in the work place, that I realized that once you loose your hearing, it is gone for ever and your hearing only gets worse from that point on. Young people should know these dangers to their hearing. To say loud music is a toxin is true. Once your addicted you do not see the point in keeping up with the latest dangers. We deny loud music problems, just like alcoholics deny their addiction never believing the damage we are doing to ourselves.
Noise pollution has tripled in the last 80 years and is now even considered a weapon by our own military for making a person incoherent by disturbing the workings of the inner ear. These high frequency weapons can leave a enemy disoriented and nauseated to the point they can not fight or function. Sound waves at high frequency can have adverse effects on the body as well. This has been scientifically proved in the last twenty years through research but the use of high frequency radio waves history goes back much further than that.
The weapon has become a big factor as a deterrent and was used in the capture of Manuel Noriega in Panama. They blared music in to his compound for 48 hours non stop. Thus bringing about his surrender to US troops. This type of weapon is used in many different areas of military and police today. It is used for breaking up large crowds of people and warding off hostile insurgents in tight quarters of combat. These same frequencies can break and shatter glass from the sound waves the machine produces. The reverberations are dangerous if used for long periods of time and the pitch is so high you never hear what is happening to you.
Sound waves can be used as a weapon or a deterrent and the environment in which it is used is a toxic environment surrounded by confusion and chaos. Science has elevated the use of high frequency speakers and we have learned many things from the use of sound waves. They are like the ripples when a stone is dropped into the water. You can see the sound wave when a big explosion happens, the sound wave travels at a great speed and can even topple buildings from it's wake. So is Loud music considered a toxin? I would think so.
Noise pollution today has grown to new heights, not since the industrial revolution of the 1900's has noise levels been as high. The loud music today only contributes to the already high levels of environmental toxins we face today.
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I would have to disagree. An evil person's thoughts are more toxic to the environment than loud music. Noise pollution is a term used, that can be arguably associated with the "spoiled" post industrialized mentality of the microwave generation. How can loud music be an environmental toxin, even in theory? The only substantial evidence that proves loud music to be a toxin, is when in excess, it may lead to headaches. I can argue the protagonist because I for one suffer from migraines.
Music is sync with the very toxic air we breathe. The birds bring their music, airplanes, taxi cabs, children's laughter, bicycle bells, the metal curtains raised when city stores open in the morning, these sounds are music. To some people they are motivational songs. Loud music draws people closer, we as Americans have no culture as a country, besides music. So unless we're all supremacists with respect to our own race, how can the coming together be looked upon as a bad thing. Its the beginning solution to the age old question..."can't we all just get along?"
Of all the natural elements that are toxic to our environment, I would have to say that music is the most beneficial in terms of the progress brings, when incorporated in the daily activities of life. Yeah we need minerals, but they can be carcinogenic, music soothes even the most savage of beasts. Turn ya music up!
Yet on the contrary, for loud music to be an environmental toxin, silence would have to be an addiction. And what price would one pay for quiet? The way I see it, the environment is custom made and music or sound rather, is an amenity paid for with the harmony of that facility. Music is life and change, it represents the environment, it's the condescending result of emotional temperatures.
However , loud music can have its disadvantages but its not hazardous. For example, when blasted in vehicles being driven past someone's funeral procession, its not dangerous to the human body, but to the psyche and group as a whole it could serve as disrespect. Late at night... say the early morning hours, it can toxic waking up or enabling infants to get sufficient rest and relaxation it can be toxic, but on the grand scale of the universe, it's not harmful at all. Loud music only becomes toxic, when the prurpose of music turns into subliminal hate messages. But it has a place in the environment.
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