Just listened to Disturbed’s version of The Sound of Silence.  It made me thing that in this election season these words from Simon and Garfunkel sound incredibly true.

“And in the naked light I saw

Ten thousand people maybe more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening “

I think that sums up pretty well the current state of political discourse in America, or certainly the last few debates. What we end up with when there is so much noise but no-one listening is in a way silence.

Then there are these lines

“”Fools,” said I, “you do not know

Silence like a cancer grows “

Yes I would say we have a form of cancer. Which results in

“And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon god they made”

You can pick your candidate of choice for that line.

So what to do, have a good talk or argument with a friend about these topics. Its the only way to actually have a conversation and to break that sound of silence.