Imagine No Imagination
May 24, 2018
JOHN LENNON’S 1971 song “Imagine” is the New World Order anthem, a song not of peace, but of deadening global tyranny and nihilism. Funny how many people have been seduced by the powerful, hopeful music into thinking it is benign. The music acts as a potent sedative — although few pills or pharmaceuticals could so instantly lull the rational mind as this can. It’s no accident that this utopian, Communistic song, which envisions a world without personality, possessions, nations and religion, has been played at the United Nations and the Summer Olympics. There’s a circle in hell where speakers play this tune over and over, driving everyone into raving lunacy. In hell, there is no imagination.
I have annotated the lyrics:
Imagine there’s no heaven
Imagine you are nothing
It’s easy if you try
It’s easier if you don’t
No hell below us
And no justice too
Above us only sky
Around us only force
Imagine all the people living for today
No past or future, ah-ha-ah-a
Imagine there’s no countries
More power for the few
It isn’t hard to do
Not for you
Nothing to kill or die for
Nothing at all to live for
And no religion too
God will notice, yes
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you
Imagine you will impose it, you
You may say I’m a dreamer
I say you’re a nihilist
But I’m not the only one
True, true, true, true
I hope some day you’ll join us
If we won’t?
And the world will be as one
And the world will be no fun
Imagine no possessions
Rock concerts will be free
I wonder if you can
Only crackpots really can
No need for greed or hunger
No need for freedom too
A brotherhood of man
A brotherhood of slaves
Imagine all the people sharing all the world, you
Imagine no imagination
You may say I’m a dreamer
No, I say you’re a spoiled brat
But I’m not the only one
True, true, true, true
I hope some day you’ll join us
If we won’t?
And the world will be as one
And the world will be as hell
— Comments —
Kyle writes:
Thank you for writing this piece. “Imagine” is in the running for worst pop song ever released for all the reasons you state and then some. I regrettably admit to being a casual listener of John Lennon’s in my teenage years, as his juvenile worldview reflected in this track appeals to the naiveté in a kid. Combine the two with a hypnotic melody and you have a recipe for brainwashing, which you accurately suggested as a form of punishment in hell–to listen to this on repeat for eternity.
Your response to his “imagine no possessions” line is probably the ultimate kill shot for that entire generation of rock bands, many of whom are still with us today, as are their $300 concert tickets. They never grow up, they just become more wrinkled and self-righteous. Paul McCartney appeared at the “March For Our Lives” gun-control protest with a shirt claiming “We Can End Gun Violence.” I double-dare him to march through the roughest areas of Detroit, Chicago, or St. Louis sans armed security detail with that message. That demographic needs to hear the message more than anyone, but it wouldn’t be as fashionable or safe as it is around upper-middle-class whites sipping on their Starbucks and posing for selfies in their $400 pairs of Persol sunglasses.
My grandfather, born in 1920, couldn’t stand John Lennon. The “bed-in for peace” episode when Lennon and Yoko Ono laid around in bed for a week irked him to no end according to my mother. “Lazy assholes” she recalls hearing him say towards the TV in 1969. Indeed.
