Imagine reality.

In Zimbabwe, most ordinary people don’t have to “imagine” no possessions. They’re living John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ imaginary dream! Capitalism, everything and everyone is busted, Socialised, levelled, powerless and above them is “only the sky”. A rather merciless sky. They really don’t have a Limousine to piss in.

John Lennon on his song ‘Imagine’:

Now I understand what you have to do. Put your political message across with a little honey.

Or really thick syrup.

And that message would be by any logical and rational measure, insane bullshit. Imagine there’s no ‘Imagine!’ Imagine there’s no reality! Imagine there’s no Yoko Ono or there is a Yoko Ono…

Imagine is such a great song that I never need to hear it again. Ever. Imagine is one of the best, catchiest and utterly done to death melody and lyric combinations advocating nihilistic Totalitarianism ever. And it is of a particularly Pol Pot’s Year Zero, Khmer Rouge emptying out the city of Phnom Pehn kind.

Add the zenith of the Cultural Revolution and the best of the living Hell of North Korea and hey presto! It is the perfect distillation of a classically clueless, callow, juvenile projection fantasy. And interestingly, it’s the complete and exact opposite of the kind of life that most every teenager is largely obsessed with. Er, unless they are a teenage cadre of a jungle guerrilla unit. Every teenager hates to get more possessions, money, fun and thrills, right? Er, no….Continue Reading on Colonel Robert Neville Always Dresses for Dinner