If You Want to Be on the Right Side of History, Follow the Music

History is loud when you’re living inside it. Everyone is certain. Everyone has a microphone. Every moment feels urgent and absolute, as if the future is being decided in real time by whoever speaks with the most confidence.

But history is quiet when it looks back.

What survives is rarely the speeches that demanded obedience. It’s the songs that told the truth gently enough to outlive the moment that produced them.

I have a theory I keep returning to, especially when the world feels heavy.

If you want to be on the right side of history, follow the music.