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Re: hard lennonade
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, rhys daily wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Peter T. Chattaway wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Dan Temmesfeld wrote:
> > > > If Lennon was merely saying "Why can't we all get along?", that
> > > > would be one thing. But no, he takes an explicitly anti-religious
> > > > stance -- which is, in its own way, a religious stance in and of
> > > > itself.
> > >
> > > i don't think he was anti-religious, but rather anti-people telling
> > > him what to do and to think.
> >
> > So he told *other* people what to do and to think? Hmmm.
>
> 'imagine' - to pretend or act as if something is real that is not. an
> ideal that lives in someone's thoughts.
But note how this ideal cancels out some of the ideals that live in
*other* people's thoughts.
> the sentences he used were not considered imperative style sentences,
> but rather suggestive - kind of like in a story where the lady goes
> 'once up n a time, there was this forest....'
Okay, so it was a softer form of propaganda than the sort of thing we hear
from, say, Midnight Oil or Stryper. But it was still propaganda.
> we know it's not real, but we play along - try our hands at it. and maybe
> sometimes, you learn how to bring a little piece of that into regular
> life, and sometimes we're all a little better off for it.
And sometimes we're all a little worse off, etc. It all depends on how
good or bad the propaganda was, I guess.
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
If true love never did exist how could we know its name? -- Sam Phillips
Happiness happens but I want joy. -- Marjorie Cardwell
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