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Cousin, I think you have misophonia.
But also, the world used to be a lot less loud. Ubiquitous noice pollution didn't kick off until the Industrial Revolution and especially the advent of the automobile.
Jesus Christ, how old are you if you remember the world before the automobile? 🤣
Depends on country. My parents definitely remember a world before cars became popular (they were born in some village in mainland China) cars are rare, and only in cities. The closest road was like 30min to 1 hour away by foot (if I recall correctly), which was around where the markets were.
I was born in a city, in the 21st century so cars were already just a part of life, in rural areas (like not in the village, cars are too big to go on those rural trails, so they had motorcycles), and definitely in cities. 1.4 billion people makes parking like impossible, so public transit was the main form of transport in the cities, and motorcycle was the main form of transport near rural areas, for long distance, like between the village to a city, it was by those buses (sort of like greyhound in the USA), I remember it was like maybe 2 hours (or maybe like up to 5 hours i have no idea, I always sleep through it). But sometimes if you have a relative that has a car, driving is an option, but I never remember ever being in a car ride, its always buses. Where as now in the US, its always car rides, no matter where it is, except maybe in like center city areas, then public transit would be easier.
Funny enough, when I first arrive in the US, the first thing I noticed was the lack of platform safety doors on the subway, where as in China (at least in GuangZhou), they were bascially on every station that I ever went to. But it make sense, China's infrastructure is new, the US has the same old trains for like 100 years, and they never got updated, sort of like early companies are still using Windows XP, but a new startup company would use Windows 11. I was always scared of falling onto the tracks, but then again, I was a kid with a lot of phobias.
The thing is, I have these external memory devices called books.