Screensaver
A simple on/off control for what your mind returns to when nothing is actively happening. When on, a neutral or steady thought fills the space. When off, whatever is loudest or most repetitive takes over.
Oprah Winfrey and the Noise of the World
Screensaver is what the mind returns to in idle moments — and whether that default is steady or chaotic. Before her shift, Oprah Winfrey's mental default state was tuned to the news cycle — reactive, consuming, noisy. After her shift, she re-established stillness as the default. She describes practicing stillness deliberately, so that when nothing is actively demanding her attention, what fills the space is quiet rather than the accumulated anxiety of the world's loudest moments. She moved from a screensaver that played the news to one that played silence.