Lennon's 'Imagine'...lacked Imagination
With his song, Imagine, John Lennon successfully got generations to downplay the significance of religion, heaven, and replace it with the corporation, the whims and fancies of these millionaire celebs, like himself, as the final arbiters of truth. Putting it really simply, 'no heaven' focuses one on 'here and now'. 'No religion' disables moral questionings, and subjects moral evolution to the capitalist-corporate-celeb-led apetites. And this would be especially the case in a highly-sexualised, celeb-worshipping, and capitalist elite-led environment like the west was, and is grossly so today. All that is left is the corporation and celeb as moral, spiritual and intellectual beacons. What you get at the end is an imagination free of thought and perpective that opposes the will of the corporation and the media. It is actually quite a tricky constellation for the untrained eye to interconnect and decipher. But it's there for those who truly prize their ind...