RBroadfoot: The second sort is an entirely clueless group.
You are both partially correct... the second group are willing to aid and abet their own cluelessness... with a state of oblivious Nirvana; i.e., idleness and superflous living... television sit-coms, spectator sports (so perverse in their fantasies, they even wear their ballcaps backward), movies, drugs, perversion - - they are contented with the phantasmal surreality created for them...
Observe when in public places, at your workplace or in other community activities (i.e., restaurants, retail stores, gas stations, etc.) the pervasive presence of some exposure to music or television. This is because many people are actually terrified of being alone with their own thoughts or at the prospect of it (neuro-linguistic programming).
Try an experiment, turn radios off at work, request as a customer patronizing private businesses that music or television is unplugged so you can have some personal tranquility with your family, friends, associates, etc. You will find a great resistance, even hostility to such a request. Ask yourself why, then consider what thoughts such people have they are so afraid of, if they are capable of or desire to have any of their own. THEY DO NOT!
Excellent point. People keep themeselves mesmerized via the mental novocain (or maybe Roxanol) of TV, radio, and what passes for "music". Many like that sound 24 hours a day. Drowns out the doubt and fear in the mind; of course, the doubt and fear is just swept under the rug, so to speak, and returns manyfold as soon as the novocain drip is turned off.