it's all in yer pespectif, noogies. 

there are now millions of people to whom the blaring of a radio is not only a more acceptable but a more normal background to their thoughts than the lowing of cattle or the song of birds. the mechanization of the world could never proceed very far while taste remained uncorrupted, because in that case most of the products of the machine would simply be unwanted.                                                                                 -orwell