(08-12-2017, 02:49 PM)Tusk Wrote: Since I've posted Steve's video of Haley singing "Imagine" I've had quite a few posts I've had to delete angered at what these people believe to be heresy....all they hear is:
'Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too'
completely missing the point of Lennon's (and Haley's) wish for EVERYBODY to get along.
Regarding Imagine.
Clearly, it is a political song. It speaks to the core of what politics are about. It conveys a humanistic, athiest, globalist, and communist point of view. Of course, people are going to comment. And now you are a censor of political speech. Feeling self-righteous about a point of view doesn't make it apolitical. I find some of the lyrics to the song rather trite, and some of the vision quite unappealing, but with the music it can be moving nonetheless.