“As enclosure by the lords increased national productivity by denying the individual peasant to keep a few sheep, so the encroachment of the loudspeaker has destroyed that silence which so far had given each man and woman his or her proper and equal voice. Unless you have access to a loudspeaker, you now are silenced.”

—  Ivan Illich

Silence is a Commons (1982)

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austrian philosopher and theologist 1926–2002

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