Music Greatly Affects Society and Ourselves (Philosophy)
Show me the music that people listen to, and I will tell you about their society.
“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.” - Plato, "The Republic"
Music directly represents the passions or states of the soul — gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites and other qualities. Hence, when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to the kind of music that arouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form. - Aristotle
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Imagine a society that listened to songs like:
Instead of songs like WAP making it to the top of our charts in our society.