“Kenny and George’s deepest wish is to imagine a world of peace, a world without violence.”
I bet George would like to imagine a world without public bathroom and DUI arrests.
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Lennon was a hypocritical pos. I the seventies he bought 11 apartments in the Dakota while two miles uptown thousands and thousands lived in severe urban poverty and actual hunger. Never a word or a gesture from Lennon or Yoko toward or about the poor at their doorstep.
re: the comments above; pygmies pecking at a giant.
If it weren’t so silly it would be sad.
I would venture that Lennon knew it was all a spoof. He made a lot of friends that way. Other persons with his use of narcotics, would have been deported from the USA.
His fame and money got him a pass.
“Lennon’s magnum opus is an ode to atheism, communism, and the songwriter’s own ignorance of the forms of government, economic systems and faith traditions necessary to produce the peace and brotherhood the so-called smart Beatle dreamed of.”
Thank you for summarizing everything I ever thought about this otherwise drippy, dull, whiny (literally - nasal Lennon), lumbering song.
With respect to the sentiments expressed in the song “Imagine” and other liberal anthems like it, it would be nice to see some of the people exhorting these verses to lead by example by actually giving up their possessions and spending the rest of their lives in a mud hut meditating or something like that. But so far, nobody has stepped up to the plate.