DO you have sharp hearing?

Part of the lifestyle of appreciating silence is not blasting an iPod in your ears (while allowing the bacteria to multiply in an unhealthy manner in the enclosed space created) which slowly destroys all of one's ability to hear. I would say that I have what would have been called 'normal hearing' back a few centuries ago, but now America is the land of the deaf, and the final cilia-possessor is king.