H/T to Thomas Peters at American Papist for this video from a previous era of hype about "overpopulation". I cannot but agree with Thomas' observations:
Never thought I'd find myself agreeing strongly with John and Yoko ...The icy grip of the dictatorship of relativism has tightened since those days. It would be more difficult for a pop celebrity to express such opinions today, methinks.
Catch the editorial comment by the show's host? Some things never change...
I especially like Lennon's last line.
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Wow!
Both spoke up well didn't they!
I too liked Lennon's last comment to the interviewer who disagreed, taking today's populist line.
"I don't care about that"!
JARay
I am 'gob smacked'! And yes Fr Tim the last line was great, just as the interviewer dismissed John's belief so John calmly threw it right back at him!
The first bit of 'sensible-speak' I have ever heard from John Lennon - shame he's been dead for so many years - perhaps being this outspoken on 'sensitive' issues like over population 'they' decided enough was enough and hired some 'hit-man' to silence him as so many youngsters of that era held John up as a hero and listened to him. I mean do we really believe that some maniac just decided to shoot him - the official story was so full of 'b******t'.
He has now wiped the slate clean in my books as I always hated that song Imagine. God rest his soul.
JARay, I loved the "I don't care". It's as if he had to agree with the interviewer merely because he holds a position in the media.
Good on John, he spoke from the heart I wish celebrities would do that nowadays. They are so politically correct that it reflects their lack of ability to think for themselves.
As for the fanatics arguing for population control why don't they set an example and annihilate themselves or as John says go to the moon.
I've converted from Leninism to Lennonism!
Actually Chas Marx had some very sensible things to say about population-control. He called Malthus' magnum opus "a libel on the human race".
I don't think it would be so shocking for a pop celebrity to say that today. In fact, it would be in keeping with general trends; commentators on the cutting edge today are more concerned about how an increasingly smaller and smaller working-age demographic is going to care for a bloated retired-aged demographic, of the baby-boomers. People, in the west at least, are not as concerned about overpopulation as they used to be, and their concerns are much more, as Yoko says, that some people are using up all the food (or, as they are more likely to say today, energy), while vast masses of people go without any.
Hmm...Would he have been on the climate change bandwagon now though?
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