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** Also in live performances, Lennon would often change the line to “I wonder if ''we'' can, showing that he was indeed aware of how it might come across to some people.
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** Also in live performances, Lennon would often change the line to “I wonder if ''we'' can, can”, showing that he was indeed aware of how it might come across to some people.
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** As above; it's a three minute pop song. Lennon is asking the audience to imagine a world without material wealth, but he's not necessarily claiming to have evolved such a consciousness himself. He's simply engaging in a dialogue with his audience rather than a navel-gaving introspection of himself, and asking the listener to imagine such a world for themselves.
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** As above; it's a three minute pop song. Lennon is asking the audience to imagine a world without material wealth, but he's not necessarily claiming to have evolved such a consciousness himself. He's simply engaging in a dialogue with his audience rather than a navel-gaving introspection of himself, and asking the listener to imagine such a world for themselves.themselves.
** Also in live performances, Lennon would often change the line to “I wonder if ''we'' can, showing that he was indeed aware of how it might come across to some people.
** Also in live performances, Lennon would often change the line to “I wonder if ''we'' can, showing that he was indeed aware of how it might come across to some people.
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** To avoid {{internet backdraft}} We'll shorten it down to this, Lennon seems to have believed that it would be a utopia, whether or not that is true or not, [[{{flamewar}} is not going to be discussed here.]]
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** To avoid {{internet backdraft}} We'll shorten it down to this, Lennon seems to have believed that it would be a utopia, whether or not that is true or not, [[{{flamewar}} is not going to be discussed here.]]
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** This concept is beyond our imagination because it does not reflect who we are as a species.
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* And many people have pointed out that "imagine no possessions" conflicts with Lennon and Ono's massive wealth. When Music/NeilYoung [[http://thrasherswheat.org/jammin/lennon.htm sang "Imagine" for the Firemen's Fund tv special]] after the September 11, 2001 attacks, he changed "I wonder if you can" to "I wonder if ''I'' can", highlighting the hypocrisy of an artist worth over $65M singing such a line.
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* And many people have pointed out that "imagine no possessions" conflicts with Lennon and Ono's massive wealth. When Music/NeilYoung [[http://thrasherswheat.org/jammin/lennon.htm sang "Imagine" for the Firemen's Fund tv special]] after the September 11, 2001 attacks, he changed "I wonder if you can" to "I wonder if ''I'' can", highlighting the hypocrisy of an artist worth over $65M singing such a line.line.
** As above; it's a three minute pop song. Lennon is asking the audience to imagine a world without material wealth, but he's not necessarily claiming to have evolved such a consciousness himself. He's simply engaging in a dialogue with his audience rather than a navel-gaving introspection of himself, and asking the listener to imagine such a world for themselves.
** As above; it's a three minute pop song. Lennon is asking the audience to imagine a world without material wealth, but he's not necessarily claiming to have evolved such a consciousness himself. He's simply engaging in a dialogue with his audience rather than a navel-gaving introspection of himself, and asking the listener to imagine such a world for themselves.
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** It is also worth simply noting that "Imagine" is a three-minute pop song, not a detailed political manifesto. Lennon's simply asking his audience to, as the title suggests, imagine a world with or without the things he raises, but what such a world would look like would vary according to the listener's imagination. Lennon presumably had his own ideas, but he's under no obligation to provide the listener with a carefully researched and costed step-by-step plan for achieving it; all he's saying is that if you want such a world, then imagining what it looks like is the first step towards eventually actualising it.
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* On a different note for the same song Music/DavidBowie [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IftjxN_KJoM did a cover]] why cant I buy this.
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* On a different note for the same song Music/DavidBowie [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IftjxN_KJoM did a cover]] why cant I buy this.this.
* And many people have pointed out that "imagine no possessions" conflicts with Lennon and Ono's massive wealth. When Music/NeilYoung [[http://thrasherswheat.org/jammin/lennon.htm sang "Imagine" for the Firemen's Fund tv special]] after the September 11, 2001 attacks, he changed "I wonder if you can" to "I wonder if ''I'' can", highlighting the hypocrisy of an artist worth over $65M singing such a line.
* And many people have pointed out that "imagine no possessions" conflicts with Lennon and Ono's massive wealth. When Music/NeilYoung [[http://thrasherswheat.org/jammin/lennon.htm sang "Imagine" for the Firemen's Fund tv special]] after the September 11, 2001 attacks, he changed "I wonder if you can" to "I wonder if ''I'' can", highlighting the hypocrisy of an artist worth over $65M singing such a line.
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*** Well, you'd have to ask the OP that; I was just trying to clarify, I wasn't saying I agreed with them.
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