Flee humanity. Get yourself to the nearest woods, desert, pond, river, lake, or field where there are very few people. If you live in a city and transportation out of the city is impossible, find an abandoned stairwell. Just sit there. Take in the glory of silence, of emptiness, the way there is no media fingerprint on anything. Feel yourself miss, and even crave, that media. Fight the urge to tweet about silence. Don’t Instagram the fucking trees. But have compassion for that instinct.

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