I have a dream

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Есть одна вещь, которую я бы запретил на законодательном уровне: фоновые музыка/телевизор/радио в общественных местах. Я думал, что я такой один, но, оказывается, единомышленники у меня есть. Пока, правда, только в UK и прочей Европе:

The Pipedown Campaign for Freedom from Piped Music is a UK-based environmental campaign founded in 1992 by the author and environmentalist Nigel Rodgers. It has links with the sister group in Germany and other countries.
The campaign fights background music in public places such as hospitals, libraries, swimming pools, pubs, shops and restaurants. Its literature describes unwanted piped music, also often called elevator music, ‘muzak’ or canned music, as any music piped without pause through a room or building where people have gone for reasons other than to listen to it. It emphasizes that it does not distinguish between different types of music, saying that all music is debased by being used as a marketing tool or acoustic wallpaper.
There is another if less acute problem with unwanted piped music in the workplace. People working in music-filled environments also may have no choice about the music playing non-stop through the working day, but they may not like to protest.

Маркетологи и нанимающие их торгаши, конечно, будут против этого всячески возражать. Ну так они и против сигаретных пачек с пугающими картинками и надписями, поди, возражали. Надеюсь, что шумочувствительному меньшинству рано или поздно удастся отстоять свое право на непрослушивание чужой и чуждой музыки.