Noise

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

~ Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne died more than 400 years ago. His statement remains true today. There is so much noise today across society. It's as if we have given everyone a noisemaker forgetting that many people are already noisemakers unto themselves. We don't need to give them more tools to amplify.

On a positive note, there are a lot of cool words that are synonyms for noise: hubbub, racket, din, cacophony.

Although today I think a respelling of cacophony might be useful. It's more like caca-phony. Volume doesn't equal truth.