And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

“Fools” said I
“You do not know, silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

–Paul Simon 1964

Compare, Ripples, Phil Collins/Anthony Banks of Genesis, (1976): [“Ripples never come back…gone to the other side…ripples never come back”]; One Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse (1964): [dialectic reasoning: negative thinking and affecting outcomes].