No one is consulted. No one is held to account. No one has the authority to turn it off. How is it that muzak has slipped through every legal control?
The blame, I’d say, lies with those who are frightened of silence — with those who spend more money in shops that buzz to a friendly background hum, and laugh too loudly when all around are mute.
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