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I'm sure in 40 years kids will be saying that we're still stuck in the turn of the millennium. But I also hate Imagine. A world where no one plans anything, a
by labster 8y ago
I'm sure in 40 years kids will be saying that we're still stuck in the turn of the millennium.
But I also hate Imagine. A world where no one plans anything, and there's nothing worth fighting for and all of our culture is gone, replaced with godless communism. Sounds like a real dystopia to me. I can imagine Lennon's world, and I'd fight it to the end. The music is solid though, as expected of Lennon.
- acqq 8y agoHowever I do think that the world without imaginary jealous fathers in the sky watching everything you do (often even requesting his followers to kill those who don’t believe in him in order to get to an imaginary place where they would have nothing to fight for) would indeed be better.
- api 8y agoI don't think Lennon saw the dystopia in that. There's plenty of dystopia in a nationalistic world where everyone is embedded in local cultural reality tunnels too. Every political paradigm seems to turn into some kind of dystopia when taken to an extreme.
- heavenlyblue 8y agoTaking the words of a singer literally is a bit of a misnomer. It's like saying Little Prince doesn't make any sense because the planets he visited were too small to have any gravity at all. The book isn't about that. Besides, being from a purely communist country myself Imagine always felt more about friendship (read "cooperative behaviour"), rather than "we should all live in a socialist world where everyone is absolutely selfless". PS: Saying that, I know Lennon was more communist that capitalist. But who really cares about what musicians say about politics? He inspires me to take a pragmatic stance on his ideas and transform them into something real.