Blog # 4: Aristotle vs. Bob Marley
There are many great people whose lives have inspired thousands. Their thoughts and ideas are profound and make people contemplate important things. Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates were three of the many but there are also great people who have inspired others using different methods than these three philosophers. The great people who we should acknowledge as philosophers are musicians.
The way people think in our society is often shaped by songs. Musicians can express their ideas in ways that will stay in people’s minds even if they don’t agree with them. After time, people will take the musicians ideas into more consideration and will start to formulate their own ideas from the lyrics or they will completely let their guard down and have the ideas become their own. People will even recite lyrics without knowing what they mean. The public can forget about the power that music has but Andrew Fletcher explained the power of music well when he said, “Let me write the songs of a nation - I don’t care who writes its laws.� This is the impact that music can have. It takes over our minds and if done right, the musician can get their ideas across to thousands of people. Certain songs will evoke certain emotions depending on the individual.
One of the greatest ways to have your ideas heard is through music. In an imaginary world, I would have an amazing voice and would be able to write poetry. I would use my talents to make people stop and think about my ideas about the way society should be, about politics, about religion, about life in general and about anything else that would have peoples’ minds begin to think about meaningful concepts. Even if I could just impact the life of one person, I would be content.
