>Besides Noam Chomsky...
Name some authors or books that are similar to this guy
Angel Taylor
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Dominic Perez
No one's quite like David Foster Wallace, I'm afraid.
Dominic Myers
Interesting challenge--writers who lack depth and are viewed as deep by shallow people, chase fads, have only the most fashionable opinions, and died too soon...
Hemingway?
Isaac Wright
JL and the Mona Lisa have the same mouth.
Jaxson Wilson
>writers who lack depth and are viewed as deep by shallow peopl
On what basis are you stating this? Remember that mental diarrhea isn't cute.
Nathaniel White
Name one deep, original thing Lennon said.
Ethan Brown
>I am the Eggman, I am the Walrus
>Coo-coo cachoo
You just don't get it maaaan
Jordan Brooks
Perfect example because the "man" to "van" change was intended as "deep-sounding nonsense."
Isaac Lee
Lennon never tried to be deep. He was self-consciously and intentionally a very simple, straightforward writer. But he told the truth in his songs in a way that was relatable. I think he was a respectable artist in his medium.
Gabriel Edwards
You're welcome.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today... Aha-ah...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... You...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can...
Levi Martinez
This is genuinely a tremendously influential piece of music. Everyone has heard this song. You could call it self-indulgent or shallow, but it helped spread these values and ideas and that makes it important by definition.
Joseph Lewis
>Besides Noam Chomsky
>John fucking Lennon
Massively triggered. Don't come here again.
Brayden Davis
>Everyone has heard this song.
>Everyone has drank a coke
Doesn't mean it's nutritious or of lasting value, my dude.
>Let's have peace, everybody!
>What if, like, religion is actually just made up?
Groundbreaking concepts there, britbong hippie man, even by 60's standards.
Jordan Taylor
Think about the lives which have been impacted by this song. The ideas may not be new, but the reach of this song is truly immense. Preschoolers on the other side of the world have heard this song. You think they would be as inclined towards those ideals if they hadn't?
The world is more than academia and high art. By a metric of lives directly impacted, this song is more important than Nietzsche. That doesn't mean it's the most interesting or important metric to me personally, but you should at least be able to recognize that it is a valid one.
Caleb Nguyen
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Jackson White
But Beatles music has actually done nothing other than sell albums and promote whatever consumer products they have been licensed to.
There is still war and violence across the globe, and if I ever meet a self-proclaimed atheist who attributed their "enlightenment" to listening to a Beatles song, there will actually be violence in the world.
>more important than Nietzsche.
Bait, surely.
Daniel Sanchez
Cringe as fuck.
Oliver Martinez
If you were able to keep a train of thought for more than four words you'd understand what I was saying.
William Ramirez
Oh I follow your retarded, populist idea, alright.
McDonald's truly is great, and it is most important source of food in the world.
Noah Kelly
You're stuck on morality.
Nathan Martin
> morality
Do go on?
Alexander Wright
I don't give a shit about Lennon, I don't give a shit about little indian kids singing let it be, but I recognize that there's an underlying set of morals and values to the song that correspond or spring out from the same ideas I hold. I enjoy seeing these ideas shared, because I consider them my own and it effectively grants me intellectual dominion over my representation of the world. It doesn't have to be a good song, it doesn't have to have artistic merit, it just has to make an impression on the world. And to deny that it has is retarded.
Jordan Brown
> I don't give a shit about little indian kids singing let it be
youtube.com
Joshua Rodriguez
Edward Lear is his most obvious influence.
Also, Spike Milligan, the only actual genius there has ever been in comedy.
The Goon Show? Sure, I'll write some stuff that Peter fucking Sellers finds intimidatingly creative.
Then he invented a new genre of comedy with "Q" although you kids know it through the baby version called Monty Python.
Best selling war memoirs in a country saturated by war memoirs and sick of the war? Spike churned them out before breakfast.
Anyhow, the moral of the story is that Spike Milligan is one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and fuck Americans for never having heard of him.
Andrew Morris
What do you mean BITCH!!!
Oliver Lopez
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Jordan Cruz
>original
this was a fashionable ethic in England over sixty years before Lennon put it in a song.
>Imagine there's no heaven
>...And no religion, too
These were already going out with the Victorians. The belief in heaven stuck around a little longer than the belief in organized religion, but by the 20th century one was unfashionable and the other was going that way.
>Imagine there's no countries
Internationalism and cosmopolitanism were very popular fads in the early 20th century
>Nothing to kill or die for
Pacifism was very popular around the same time.
>Imagine no possessions
You already know that socialism was most popular at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th centuries
Lennon's great achievement, if you can call it that, was to take the opinions which were fashionable in wealthy circles in the 1920s and to spread them to common folk