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2007-03-19 Home Front: Culture Wars
The Gospel of John & Yoko: The Origins of Mad Morality
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Posted by Steve White 2007-03-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Is that you in the photo Debbie??? *FREEREPUBLIC also has an article on the premises of BEATNIKS.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-19 00:33||   2007-03-19 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Good article from someone whose definitely seen that collective hallucination known as communism. Although, I was always more of a John fan when it came to the Beatles' songs.
Posted by Broadhead6 in Iraq 2007-03-19 04:38||   2007-03-19 04:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Imagine if musicians
It's easy if you try
No gum on the sidewalks
Above us Byrds flying in the sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine a beautiful country
where musicians never lecture
telling us what think and vote for
It isn't hard to do
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace and freedom

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one who wants
never to be moralized to
where musicians only sing and dance
and never tell us what to do
I hope someday you'll join us
Posted by Spembolov 2007-03-19 06:22||   2007-03-19 06:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The predecessors of these surrenderists saw nothing wrong in communist war preparations. They don't want peace; they want unilateral disarmament.
Posted by Sneaze 2007-03-19 06:29||   2007-03-19 06:29|| Front Page Top

#5 In the nearly six years since 9/11, the most brilliant essay I've seen up to now is Lee Harris' analysis of the fantasy ideology of Islamofascism.

"The Gospel of John & Yoko" is almost as good. As I was reading it, it struck me that the "peace" movement is just as caught up in fantasy ideology as its de facto terrorist allies.

Oh, and Lennon himself? One half of the best songwriting team to walk the earth, but the man was deeply messed-up.
Posted by Mike 2007-03-19 07:07||   2007-03-19 07:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Heh heh Spembo
Posted by Shipman 2007-03-19 07:24||   2007-03-19 07:24|| Front Page Top

#7 As a commie, Yoko Oh No! sure did well managing Lennon's property - made them multi-millions. What a couple of hypocrites and posers.
Posted by Spot">Spot  2007-03-19 08:21||   2007-03-19 08:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Did Lennon ever read Brave New World? For those of you who haven't, Huxley had already imagined the world Lennon would dream of, and had found the implications rather nerve-wracking.
Posted by Korora">Korora  2007-03-19 10:18||   2007-03-19 10:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Ringo.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-19 10:50||   2007-03-19 10:50|| Front Page Top

#10 "As a commie, Yoko Oh No! ..."

LOL this brings to mind what we used to invariably call her...

Yoko Oh No! She's going to sing!
Posted by OldSpook 2007-03-19 12:10||   2007-03-19 12:10|| Front Page Top

#11 If John and Yoko were really into communism and thought it so good, they would have redistributed their wealth to the masses. They ain't happening.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-03-19 12:30||   2007-03-19 12:30|| Front Page Top

#12 correction: They That
Posted by JohnQC 2007-03-19 12:31||   2007-03-19 12:31|| Front Page Top

#13 "Some animals are more equal."


John, Yoko, Al, JF'nK, Pigs.......
Posted by AlanC">AlanC  2007-03-19 16:16||   2007-03-19 16:16|| Front Page Top

#14 What's even more pathetic is that Lennon's lyrics became less politically sophisticated as Yoko's influence grew. There's more wisdom in Revolution ("If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao/ You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow" than the pied piper nihilism of Imagine three years later.
Posted by ryuge 2007-03-19 23:17||   2007-03-19 23:17|| Front Page Top

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