A voice, in origination, passes through a circulation network, which in turn operates potentially on the voice through feedback loops. That is, operational nodes within the circulation network effectively comment upon, pass evaluative judgments back upon the voice. Feedback occurs when those judgments are received by the speaker and enter into new vocalisations (or the computations/machinations thereof).

Of course, any given node within a circulation network can effectively silence a voice from operating within or passing through that node if the voice does not seemingly conform to some degree of feedback from that node.  ¨No, we won play your song on the radio - itś not good enough¨.

The independent voice comes in two forms.  Firstly, the voice that does not listen.  Secondly the voice that listens to all.  It not only meets the evaluative criteria of a given feedback loop, but surpasses these criteria.  It effectively silence criticism not by suppressing it, but by belittling it in the face of a larger perspective.

 Sometimes, a voice finds a listener outside of the established circulation networks.