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"We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction."
~ US State Department, 1948
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I'm suprised at the question coming from you.
Your comment comes across as if socialism is more likely to be a target than say capitalism or communism for that matter.... They're all ways and means as far as any psychopathic hierarchy is concerned. One isn't better way of doing things than the other.
No, I just find it difficult to watch the masses being lured so slyly into such a false sense of "care". It's so sheeps clothing, I feel my life - or life in general is just one grand cliche, or maybe like the Truman's show. No one can see the writing on the wall, just like Nazi Germany. It's all over again like Groundhog Day, but on such a grander scale that I shudder in terror and anticipation.
John Lennon - Imagine _[Link]
Lenon was killed by the boyfriend of his secret lover - a latino lady, in a bout of jealousy. People interested to make a hero out of him (and sell even more records) started to talk about the secret services being involved lol
As far as socialism is concerned, people like him and Bono will sing about equality but pay what is worth an annual salary in a third world country for their hat to be transported by plane, hypocrites! Just try to take their wealth and distribute it to the poor lol!
I like a lot of the pre-LSD Beatles records, the ones with all those fabulous chord structures, but I think politically John Lennon was full of s*it. I think "Imagine" is full of s*it, it's a heroin song.
"The reason I believe he was murdered was because he was taking part in demonstrations against the war in Vietnam."
I think that's likely, but his activism period, or panto Jesus period, depending on your point of view was long behind him at the time of his death. This from a Playboy interview in 1980...
PLAYBOY: "What about the Bangladesh concert, in which George and other people such as Dylan performed?"
LENNON: "Bangladesh was ca-ca."
PLAYBOY: "You mean because of all the questions that were raised about where the money went?"
LENNON: "Yeah, right. I can't even talk about it, because it's still a problem. You'll have to check with Mother (Yoko) because she knows the ins and outs of it, I don't. But it's all a rip-off. So forget about it. All of you who are reading this, don't bother sending me all that garbage about, 'Just come and save the Indians, come and save the blacks, come and save the war veterans,' Anybody I want to save will be helped through our tithing, which is ten percent of whatever we earn."
PLAYBOY: "But that doesn't compare with what one promoter, Sid Bernstein, said you could raise by giving a world-wide televised concert... playing separately, as individuals, or together, as the Beatles. He estimated you could raise over $200,000,000 in one day."
LENNON: "That was a commercial for Sid Bernstein written with Jewish schmaltz and showbiz and tears, dropping on one knee. It was Al Jolson. OK. So I don't buy that. OK?"
PLAYBOY: "But the fact is, $200,000,000 to a poverty-stricken country in South America..."
LENNON: "Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway."
PLAYBOY: "On the subject of your own wealth, the New York Post recently said you admitted to being worth over $150,000,000 and..."
LENNON: "We never admitted anything."
PLAYBOY: "The Post said you had."
LENNON: "What the Post says... OK, so we are rich; so what?"
PLAYBOY: "The question is, How does that jibe with your political philosophies? You're supposed to be socialists, aren't you?"
LENNON: "In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was. That meant I think people should get their false teeth and their health looked after, all the rest of it. But apart from that, I worked for money and I wanted to be rich. So what the hell... if that's a paradox, then I'm a socialist. But I am not anything. What I used to be is guilty about money. That's why I lost it, either by giving it away or by allowing myself to be screwed by so-called managers."
Still think the possibility that mind control was at play is present, that's the level of control (even Marx). The music was just so influential. I have often wondered about the power of music to influence social forces, and I mean in the less obvious ways - ie, by certain tones, key-changes and such. I mean, if it could be used to build pyramids (the power of spinning and such too) the knowledge on how to use these "powers" is of course still around at the top of the hierarchy. It most probably started with classical music to control the upper-classes, then filtered downward to the "people", as it seems the way it goes for everything.
Anyhow, on with the day.