Continuous sound when gravel biking: Why do electronic devices have to interfere with cycling?

The world beeps

Birds used to chirp. Today, the world beeps.
A beep here, a beep there, beeping everywhere - warning, hint, instruction.

You leave the route.
You stay on the route.
The route climbs.
Your memory is full.
Apparently, so is your life.

Modern people are no longer informed.
They are educated acoustically.

People listen to machines

This beeping is not harmless. It is an instruction.

It says:
Watch out.
Don't do that.
Do this now.

Personal responsibility? Is outsourced.
To devices that believe they know better.

And we?
We listen carefully.

My life becomes a beep. Of course, you can also switch off the beeping. With a lot of beeping, of course. I managed to do that at some point. Others have not. Among them: Friends of mine. Every endeavour with them becomes a test of patience for me.

Does life have to be recorded so loudly?

It gets particularly bad when technology meets enthusiasm.

My friend Andi loves his GoPro.
It beeps at everything. Really everything.

Start. Beep.
Stop. Beep.
From video to photo. Beep.
Battery. Beep.
Memory. Beep.

Andi documents his life as an athlete in full.
Skiing, surfing, biking - drops, turns, jumps, breathing - probably soon too.

The idea behind it:
If everything is recorded, you have experienced something. Then life makes sense. Only then was it really good.

The problem:
Above all, it was loud.

Please be quiet in the forest

I have learnt that you speak softly in the forest.

My father used to do that when I was a child. If I was too loud, he would put his index finger to his lips and look upwards. Psssssst!

Later in the Bundeswehr, they called it noise discipline.
I was a sniper in the paratroopers.
We knew: Silent = stay alive.
Noise and sound = the opposite.

Rest is not a lack.
It is a fulfilment.

Today, on the other hand:
Bluetooth speakers in the rucksack.
Conversations in stadium mode.
Gravel groups with an entertainment programme.

As if nature had a clay void that needed to be filled.

More natural silence, please

I don't want any beeping.
No music.
No constant commentary from my device.

Only tyres on gravel.
Wind in your ear.
Maybe a bird - if it makes an effort.

The rest are welcome to remain silent.