"Bad noise" does not mean the same as "Noise Bad". The former leaves room for the concept of good noise, or beautiful noise (which ought to be an oxymoron). "Noise bad" implies that all noise is bad. Since the "is" is missing, I should prefer "Noise, bad"... but I seem to be a language dinosaur.
"Noise bad" follows the word order of the simple slogan "two legs bad" used by the ruling pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm... until it became "two legs better" once the pigs learned how to walk on two legs.
For an interesting analysis of the use and effect of "four legs good, two legs bad" and the seven commandments on Animal Farm, I recommend Dr, Oliver Tearle's "Dispatches From The Secret Library".
Noise is bad, if one accepts that "Noise is defined as an unwanted sound or combination of sounds that has adverse effects on health."
For more on Noise and the Quality of Life see Michael D. Seidman and Robert T. Standring's article in the National Library of Medicine.
Florence Nightingale wrote that patients engulfed by noise could not heal from their injuries. From personal experience, I tend to agree with her.
Noise can cause dementia, strokes, heart problems, diabetes, anxiety, sexual dysfunction and more. The prevalence of noise might explain low birth rates, low IQs, lesser birth weight of babies, the prevalence of senility, the apparent (if one can trust advertisements, which is by no means a foregone conclusion) epidemic of men who need boner boosters.
Apparently, it is not crazy to think that one's heart rate blips, and one's anger levels rise when stuck in traffic and subjected to another driver's bass notes. Custom car enthusiasts seem to think that really loud sound systems are a status symbol, with no consideration for other drivers on the road, and no idea what damage they might be doing to their own minds and bodies.
Another article on the invisible damage to the body and mind can be found here:
One might conclude that noise is violence, and noise-making is an equivalent of attacking a person with a baseball bat to the head.
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