Stephen McGhee . . . "If we consider Lennon's vision with any level of seriousness, we will find that the concept of no possessions is synonymous with hell. This is why he had to use trickery to draw us in.
"In truth, you don't have to be a dreamer to know what life without possessions would be like. You just have to know a little history. As brilliant as Lennon was (see "Ticket to Ride" and dozens more), he wasn't the first to imagine no possessions. Josef Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung, to name just two, imagined it decades before him, and the combined result of their imagination was the murder of 100 million souls in peacetime and the enslavement of more than a billion people. Did Lennon not know the history of these butchers?
"While we're on the subject, are the members of the Olympic Committee also ignorant of recent world history and current events? They must be – otherwise, they wouldn't have missed the irony of South Korean K-Pop singers fervently pleading for a life without religion or possessions when that paradise is only a short walk away – across the DMZ.
"Imagine that."
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