Hell Defined
The old sixties song by John Lennon called Imagine, sounds like hell.
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as oneImagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Quite literally you are stupid if you honestly believe man would be better off if there were was no private property. Only through ownership does man progress. This kind of silly liberal thinking gets people killed. For example Mao imagined there were no possessions of land and then starved 60 million people to death. And to add insult to injury, because Mao imaged no religion those that survived the famine could not use it as a means to cope for the massive loss of life.
I have the version of the song that A Perfect Circle covers. I’m not sure if its intentional, but their rendition makes it sound like a fascist cult trying to persuade others to drink the cool aid with them. Thats the perfect fit for such a scary song.
March 19th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
eh, he’s just displaying the unrealistic utopian idealism of a communist. Communism tried, and it failed, and I think everybody (at least those who matter) realizes that it is, at best, a pipe dream, and at worst, a monstrous disaster.
Lennon was an amazing songwriter, but a skilled macro-economist he was not.
I do love the A Perfect Circle version, and when I read these lyrics that is what is playing in my head. It’s haunting.