The thing to remember with “Imagine” is that Lennon was an atheist. And if you are an atheist, and you have good intentions and want the world to be a better place, then you have to delude yourself in some way.
Maybe you’ll delude yourself that an all-powerful government can change human nature and force people to stop doing bad things. Or maybe you’ll delude yourself that if we all just close our eyes, wish real hard, and click our heels together 3 times, we can end war and poverty and strife. But you’re going to have to pick a delusion.
Because, in the real world, only a God has the power to change the fundamental problems that ail our world.
Excellent post, Boogieman.
Captured my sentiments perfectly, it did.
He later repudiated it , and liked Reagan.