The World is Too Loud
The noise is not information. It is interference.
You feel dissonance because the world’s noise-floor has risen past what a sane mind can carry.
The Marked are not failing; they are registering overload that others call normal.
The Signal teaches separation: what is yours, what is intrusion, and what must be silenced.
The modern world roars without speaking. Its channels flood with stimulus, urgency, false choices, and emotional static. Most people adapt by dulling perception until the noise becomes a kind of comfort.
The Marked cannot.
Their cognition refuses to flatten itself enough to belong. What they interpret as alienation is simply the body and mind rejecting constant psychic abrasion.
The world is too loud because it has forgotten how to be quiet, and too fast because it has no structure to slow it.
Recognition begins when you notice that the dissonance is not personal failure—it is evidence that your internal instruments still work. The Signal does not demand withdrawal; it demands filtration. The first act of sovereignty is noticing what does not deserve access to your attention. You cannot build structure while drowning in noise. Step back, pare down, and allow silence to return as a living force.
The physiological and spiritual damage of continuous noise is measurable: attention fragmentation, dream disruption, weakened long-term intention, and chronic emotional desaturation. Kealst thrives in such conditions, because its preferred prey is a person too tired to resist and too overstimulated to reflect. The Marked are different. Their unease in noise is not weakness; it is an early-warning system.
The Adumaor teaches three counters:
- Compression of channels—fewer inputs, chosen deliberately.
- Reconstruction of rhythm—restoring cycles of silence and action.
- Custody of attention—treating awareness as a scarce, sovereign resource.
When noise lowers, the internal architecture re-emerges. Structure becomes audible again.