Jamming of the channels of communication

Pornography “creates a disconnection from God, from spouse and even from self-identity,” President (Emily Belle) Freeman, (Young Women general president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) said, referencing President Boyd K. Packer’s teaching as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles that a “trend to more noise” was “not coincidental nor innocent.” 

“The first ordered issued by a commander mounting a military invasion,” President Packer said, “is the jamming of the channels of communication of those he intends to conquer.”

Jacob Hess

President Freeman calls pornography ‘the plague of our time’ during Utah Coalition Against Pornography gathering” Deseret News. March 16, 2026

music and silence

Music and silence – how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since Our Father entered Hell – though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express – no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces, but all has been occupied by Noise – Noise, the grand dynamism, the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless, and virile – Noise which alone defends us from silly qualms, despairing scruples and impossible desires. We will make the whole universe a noise in the end. 

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis. 1942. p.119,120