Cardinal Sarah Confronts the Dictatorship of Noise 

Postmodern man, says Cardinal Sarah, lives on the “sad drug” of noise, which “sickens yet reassures him.” He “gets drunk” on noise to deny reality, to “anesthetize his own atheism.” He’s hooked up to the “morphine pump” of agitation; his eyes “are sick, intoxicated, they can no longer close.” They’re “red” from the flickering screens …

Source: Cardinal Sarah Confronts the Dictatorship of Noise – Crisis Magazine