Developing one’s own opinion
Marvin Gaye, the black soul singer from the 1960s, produced songs about social problems in America. However, unlike agitators, his songs were about problems and events characterized by “hey what’s going on?”. He sang about events that were happening on the ground without offering solutions. His theory was that people were intelligent enough to form their own opinions.
A democracy depends upon informed citizens making independent decisions based on generally accepted facts, reading differing opinions of these facts and then using the prism of history to sift all these elements to come to their own conclusion.
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