By Nicolas Cardot
Noise. It’s the epidemic that’s been increasingly engulfing our planet over the past 100 years. It’s the media plague that drives men to praise their TiVo’s for their god-like ability to skip commercials and quickly get us back to watching our favorite sports team or evening sitcom.
Like the besieged La Roque Castle, our culture is under attack. We are bombarded on every side and at every moment with sales pitches. We face commercials on the radio, on television, on YouTube, in the newspapers, on billboards and on the sides of trucks. We’re pitched to support aspiring artists on the street, to buy a vacuum cleaner from the door-to-door salesman, and to buy roses from the peddler on the corner.
It was this onslaught that drove Jim Carry’s character... More...
