Cuban Missile Crisis- Part 2, Ukraine

Big Daikon · Post by **Big Daikon** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:34 pm

Double dare ya!

Kampuchia Crumbs · Post by **Kampuchia Crumbs** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:44 pm

xandreu wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:01 pm I hate to go all John Lennon Imagine on everyone,

This reminds me of when I watched The Killing Fields with my buddy (1st time for him). At the end when they played "Imagine" and he looks over at me with the wierdest look. Said what the F, they played the most communist manifesto song at the end of a movie showing the horrors or communism. It was a strange moment for me to say the least.

I still like that ending scene

Big Daikon · Post by **Big Daikon** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:52 pm

Kampuchia Crumbs wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:44 pm This reminds me of when I watched The Killing Fields with my buddy (1st time for him). At the end when they played "Imagine" and he looks over at me with the wierdest look. Said what the F, they played the most communist manifesto song at the end of a movie showing the horrors or communism. It was a strange moment for me to say the least.

I still like that ending scene

YES! I love that movie, but that song choice is so wrong! No one around me sees it, either.

Post by **Freightdog** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:08 pm

I’m not sure it is or was wrong.

The ideas and concepts are fine; it’s the failing of humans to make it happen, or corrupt it from the outset that make it futile.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:13 pm

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:52 pm
Kampuchia Crumbs wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:44 pm This reminds me of when I watched The Killing Fields with my buddy (1st time for him). At the end when they played "Imagine" and he looks over at me with the wierdest look. Said what the F, they played the most communist manifesto song at the end of a movie showing the horrors or communism. It was a strange moment for me to say the least.

I still like that ending scene
YES! I love that movie, but that song choice is so wrong! No one around me sees it, either.

I noticed - and also the slight hypocrisy of John Lennon writing it. So did Elton John who was friend of Lennon's. He rewrote the song for his friend:

Elton John wrote: Imagine six apartments, it isn't hard to do, one is full of fur coats, another's full of shoes.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/elton-j ... n-imagine/

Big Daikon · Post by **Big Daikon** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:22 pm

Freightdog wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:08 pm I’m not sure it is or was wrong.

The ideas and concepts are fine; it’s the failing of humans to make it happen, or corrupt it from the outset that make it futile.

The song "Imagine"? I think the whole concept is awful and unrealistic. Completely negates everything that builds a society.
(Jonathan Haidt uses that song as a divider between left-wing and right-wing views.)

Bit OT, apologies.

Kung-fu Hillbilly · Post by **Kung-fu Hillbilly** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:45 pm

The irony of John Lennon singing of a world without poverty, greed or hunger on his multi-million dollar estate wasn't the most well thought out idea. The price of the piano he played in the video alone would probably have fed a thousand starving kids for a year.

Post by **Freightdog** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:02 pm

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:45 pm The irony of John Lennon singing of a world without poverty, greed or hunger on his multi-million dollar estate wasn't the most well thought out idea. The price of the piano he played in the video alone would probably have fed a thousand starving kids for a year.

He wasn’t born to it, though. He did something, made something that a great many others valued and wanted, and were willing to pay for.
There’s irony, but there are far greater insults…

Kung-fu Hillbilly · Post by **Kung-fu Hillbilly** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:08 pm

Freightdog wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:02 pm
Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Mon Jan 24, 2022 1:45 pm The irony of John Lennon singing of a world without poverty, greed or hunger on his multi-million dollar estate wasn't the most well thought out idea. The price of the piano he played in the video alone would probably have fed a thousand starving kids for a year.
He wasn’t born to it, though. He did something, made something that a great many others valued and wanted, and were willing to pay for.
There’s irony, but there are far greater insults…

Agree. Lennon's contributions to popular culture far exceed whatever flaws or oversight the man had.

Chuck Borris · Post by **Chuck Borris** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:25 pm

How real is Russia’s threat to deploy missiles to Latin America?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/1 ... in-america

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