To get silence in a Japanese city, you just buy a pair of Boise or Apple noise canceling earbuds, and to talk you just buy SOURCENEXT's POCKETALK ai translation device with licensed Doraemon theme. Of course it just translates commons to コモンズ.
I was thinking about this exact thing standing in the noisy headphone section of Yodobashi camera. why must i pay for silence..?
Its always interesting how the warnings of old cultural theorists seem to taken as an instruction manual.