On February 17, 2000 there was an auction for John Lennon’s Steinway piano. But it wasn’t just a Steinway. It was also the one he used to compose his song, “Imagine.” That vacuous, ridiculous, and delusional dive into nothingness.
I think even the Steinway piano had more intelligence.
“Gee whiz, Tony. Why don’t you say what you really think?”
OK. John Lennon was a stupid, selfish narcissist whose so-called imagination was overly influenced by drugs and ego. Is that plain enough?
And his song, “Imagine,” reveals Mr. Lennon’s hypocrisy and self-centric worldview. He said to imagine no Heaven or hell. And he said “it’s easy if you try.” Then he said to imagine there’s only sky above us. But to believe there’s nothing more than that leads to hopelessness.
In the second verse John said to imagine no countries. And he said to imagine “nothing to kill or die for.” Can you imagine not defending your family? Even to the point of killing someone who’d harm your loved ones? Or taking a bullet for them if it came to that? Can you imagine that? Yeah, me neither.
How about no religion? Do you think that’s the answer to “all the people living life in peace?” Hardly. If there’s no God, there can be no peace. And certainly no hope. Billions of people will NEVER all reach some sort of utopian harmony on their own. Without an absolute standard, there’s only chaos, confusion, and opinions.
And that nullifies Mr. Lennon’s claim, that if we all become dreamers like him, “the world will be as one.”
Then, the lyrics to “Imagine” really get dim-witted. John said to “imagine no possessions.” And he wondered if you even can. Keep in mind, he wrote this song on HIS Steinway piano. And he recorded much of it in HIS home studio. In his Tittenhurst Park estate in Ascot, Berkshire, England which he bought for £145,000. That equals over £1 million in today’s money.
But who’s counting?
If John Lennon really believed what he wrote, then why didn’t he spread his wealth around to as many people as possible? After all, if truly believed there’s a brotherhood of man, why wouldn’t he do that? Why wouldn’t he lead by example? And stop acquiring stuff so that the brotherhood of man shared “all the world?”
Because he was vacuous, ridiculous, hypocrite.
But it’s still a terrible loss that he was murdered. Not a loss for the world. But a loss of yet another soul who will have to pay his own sin debt. And I can’t even imagine how horrible that must be for him now.
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