Title : Listening to music through earphones has been the norm for a long time, so why do we still play the television out loud?
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Listening to music through earphones has been the norm for a long time, so why do we still play the television out loud?
I remember the days of annoying music-playing. I was a horrible offender myself when I was a teenager living with my parents. But headphones became the norm, and I wonder if people today even realize how much annoyance we are spared.And yet TV rages on, filling the sound space of our homes and leaking out onto the neighbors. Where are the headphones? I know you can rig something up, and I have an old Roku with a headphone jack, but it's not the norm.
Here at Meadhouse, we have exactly one television and it's right next to where I work on my desktop computer. All of this is by choice. We could have more TVs, and I have another desktop computer in a distant room and a perfectly good laptop computer and many comfortable rooms where I could blog.
I'm not complaining, but I did have the occasion to wonder aloud this morning about why TVs don't have headphones. This lead to a discussion of the Dylan line "You should be made to wear earphones," from the 7th (and last) verse of "Ballad of a Thin Man":
Well, you walk into the roomBob Dylan obviously doesn't like Mr. Jones, by why is wearing earphones the solution? Bob and Mr. Jones are not sharing a space within which Jones is playing some music or show that is bothering Bob. Mr. Jones has clearly walked into Dylan's space and Dylan thinks he doesn't belong there and ought to be excluded (and for some reason on this occasion Dylan looks to the law to solve his problems). But it seems the reason Mr. Jones doesn't belong in Dylan's room is that he doesn't pay attention to the reality of what's going on there.
Like a camel and then you frown
You put your eyes in your pocket
And your nose on the ground
There oughtta be a law
Against you comin' around
You should be made
To wear earphones
Jones is not using his senses — he's not seeing (his eyes are in his pocket), he's not smelling properly (his nose is on the ground), and there's something wrong with his hearing. Why earphones? It's the mid-1960s, and earphones are unusual, mostly associated with radio broadcasters or audio technicians. I think we have to assume that Dylan meant that Mr. Jones was so bad at understanding what was going on around him that he'd need to get inside headphones to be able to hear what is easily audible to the other people at this party.
That's quite different from the usual reason to say "You should be made to wear earphones" to somebody today, which is that you don't want to hear what they're playing out loud. And for the most part, no one is telling us to wear earphones. We willingly enclose ourselves within earphones and seek the isolation and exclusiveness of the inside of our own head — when we're listening to audio. But when we've got video with our audio, when we're watching TV, we play it out loud like it's 1965. And we still don't have headphones.
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