Trash Download
Noise Dragon
E-Travellers
Yesterday I
travelled by BTS from Mo Chit to Phaya Thai stations. Viewing my fellow
travellers across the way, I noticed their diligence in travelling in another
world, they were e-travellers, present in the carriage confines, but absent in a
quiet e-world of their own. I became aware of the unusual quiet and quickly
looked at the display screens, they were blank, and SILENT. The quiet of the
e-world had conquered the noise dragon which haunts BTS, where passengers sit
staring with empty expressions as the infernal machines download commercial
trash to their captured brains.
Is this a real
respite, has the absorption of passengers in their personal e-travels beaten the
trash delivery? The time was 6.0pm when the carriage was crowded with tiered
workers. Has there been a change of policy by BTS, a change previous requested
by Quiet Bangkok? Is it a temporary lapse by the noise dragon? Or has the loss
of audience to their private world, turned to a loss the trash downloads? So be
it!