As The United Nations General Assembly gets underway this week, we renember the unique New Yorker who was shot and lost his life on the streets of Manhattan after spreading his message with a misunderstood meaning.
When the former Beatle's ubiquitous hit was identified as one of the greatest songs of all time, John Lennon's hallmark lyrics were described as 22 lines of graceful, plain-spoken faith in the power of a world, united in purpose, to repair and change itself.
However, these feel-good sentiments behind the song, a former US President once said it used almost equally with national anthems having some serious Communist underpinnings.
Lennon called the song "virtually the Communist manifesto," then when the song became a hit, he went on the record saying, "Because it's sugarcoated it's accepted. Now I understand what you have to do—put your message across with a little honey."
Perhaps subsequent administrations could learn a thing or two from a master storyteller. IMAGINE https://youtu.be/DVg2EJvvlF8