Posted on 08/13/2012 7:13:39 AM PDT by Loud Mime
Let’s take John Lennon up on his offer. Let’s imagine what the world would be like with no countries, religions or a heaven or hell. Let’s imagine a world with no possessions and nothing important enough to be willing to kill to protect it or die to ensure its continuing. Let’s imagine Lennon’s world where all the people are living for nothing other than today.
In this world, people will have saved no money for their retirement. After all, retirement is somewhere down the line. All the people would have massive debts – borrowed every penny from everywhere they could, maxed out their credit cards, bought houses they couldn’t pay for – because the promise to repay those debts were made yesterday. In Lennon’s world people would splurge on big screen TVs, using money that should have gone to buying health insurance, but, alas, the big game is tonight while their health at the moment is just fine.
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And what kind of country is it where John Lennon gets six bullets in the chest and Yoko is right next to him and not a single bullet? Chapman could have been a hero.
Imagine there’s no Heaven,
It easy if you lie,
No Hell below us, that is, until you die.
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I was a junior in high school when the song came out. At the time I listened to the lyrics and came to the same conclusion this article does.
It’s lunacy. I lost all respect for lennon as anything but a songwriter with that song. I say that because a lot of songs have vapid lyrics, but usually they re love songs.
This one exposed some fundamental fails on his part regarding his world view and understanding of human nature.
Any respect I may have had for him, admittedly little, took flight when he married that caterwauling Japanese potbellied pig.
Imagine it for two minutes, then recognize how unrealizable as goal it is, and come back to reality.
That's the proper context for all the utopian nonsense contained in that song.
>>Our coffee shop group will be discussing this today - - be prepared for the liberals!<<<
Ask them if they know the significance of Aleister Crowley’s picture on the Sgt. Pepper’s album cover.
Johnnie was OK, till the lads got caught up in drugs. Turned out to be a pompous ass, and his musical ability cratered, such as it was.
Most over-rated band ever, hands down.
The author make an assumption there would be money, thus debt, in this imagined world or that there’d even be a need to “save for retirement.”
Harrison too. Lousy gutarist, couldn’t sing, more insipid lyrics.
John was definitely the leader of the Beatles in their early days, when they mostly performed cover versions of songs...but clearly once they hit their “creative phase” it was mostly Paul.
Paul was a better guitarist than George (his solo on “Maybe I’m Amazed” proved that), and he was a pretty capable drummer too. Amazing all-around musician.
Most over-rated band ever, hands down. Agreed. 60’s leftists keep the legend going though.
I am convinced that Lennon simply rode on Paul’s coattails.
I guess that is what marginal artists do.
Amen. Preach on, brother, whilst I don my flame-retardant suit.
Agreed. And it ain't just about the Beatles, either.
I did a LOT of stupid things when I was young. Rarely do I fondly reminisce about the most stupid of them. Not 60's Liberals. For instance, a 3-day drug-fueled orgy at Woodstock? I don't see much there to be proud of. From what I've seen, the PA was terrible too, so the is more fondly remembered, than was actually played.
Not all socialists who traveled to Russia to see Lenin and the new socialist society came away enamored. H.G. Wells (no conservative theorist) after an interview with Lenin, came away thinking that Lenin was off his rocker. Unfortunately, Wells's view of Lenin was not shared by most foreign, socialist visitors.
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