The way of blood

From morning until night I am physiologically assaulted in my studio apartment. Human beings are supposed to have homes to live in, places where they can live and rest. Not places where they are continually assaulted.

America and many of its communities are on the wrong track. The physiological assault creates a class system of those with privilege who can afford the luxury of being able to sleep and to live peacefully in their homes, and those who cannot.

Auto manufacturers deliberately making their vehicles emit loud noise, despite the fact that advances in engineering have resulted in motors which are significantly quieter today than at any time in the past. This is an outrage.

In addition, new car stereo systems include special kinds of speakers which are deliberately designed to emit extremely loud, low-frequency sounds which vibrate the street. The walls and floors of my apartment literally shake from this noise around the clock.

Then there are the motorcycles which emit noise so loud that it is nothing short of a complete atrocity perpetrated against all within a wide radius around them.

Beyond all this, many people deliberately modify the exhaust systems of their vehicles to emit loud noise. This is illegal under state law at least in my state, but it doesn’t matter because the law is not enforced.

Nothing is done about it. Street noise is the top public-health problem in urban areas and it is one that could almost completely be eliminated tomorrow. The consequences to chronic exposure to loud noise are well studied and include developmental disabilities for children, and cardiovascular and other physiological effects.

I’m sure the majority of people who actually live in my neighborhood appreciate and want to live in peace. But this sick society is allowing a small minority of people to continually commit acts of physiological assault.

As I write these words my apartment is literally vibrating from the sounds of yet another vehicle. This occurs all day, every day. Because the sounds are low frequency nothing can stop them. Higher frequency sound waves travel through the air and can be blocked with earplugs, fans, and by closing windows. But the low frequency sounds are like seismic waves which transmit through the actual solid material of the street and into the structure of the building I live in. Basically they are like earthquakes.

No human being should have to experience this and it really is an indication of the extent to which America is just sickeningly off-track.

I am now looking at relocating out of my current apartment to a completely different part of the country, with the hope of eventually going to Europe which has much better protection of human rights. I have had it. I cannot exist in an environment which is causing me to be chronically ill. I am truly sickened by the human folly. We have come to this point of having all this technology. We strip such vast amounts of resources from Earth to make everything we want, and what we end up with is just so much shit and abuse. Really inexcusable.

I came to live in this city, this urban environment, because I was excited about being able to live in a more ecologically-friendly manner. To ride my bicycle every day instead of driving. To live in compact housing which is more efficient. Etc. But I feel like I’ve been ripped-off.

I accept the stupidity, carelessness, and abusive behavior of my fellow humans but now its time to move on. As my home is destroyed, as my city is destroyed, I feel America is also destroyed. If it is the destiny of America to fall because of ignorance and greed I have to accept it no matter how sad. But I also have to move on.

People who think they can “win” in this situation will surely find out one day that such victory is only failure when everything they thought they were achieving has been lost because it was built on blood. Wealth that is based on blood never lasts.