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We endured so much during the COVID lockdowns, but perhaps the worst moment just celebrated, as it were, its fifth anniversary.
Earlier this week, PJ’s managing editor Paula Bolyard reminded me that booze makers temporarily switched from the sacred and time-honored duty of making booze and started making hand sanitizer, instead. Surely, I thought, that must have been the nadir of the global response to the pandemic.
It’s said that nothing is as bad as what you can imagine. Except, of course, for John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Particularly when it’s sung as a series of treacly solos by well-meaning (???) celebrities trying to make us little people feel better about being locked in our homes, and having our jobs, businesses, schools, playgrounds, and access to dying Nana in the nursing home all taken away.
If you need a reminder of the smug self-satisfaction unintentionally on display, here’s the video.
The best thing you can say about “Star-Studded Imagine” is “They meant well”, which is the non-Dixie version of “Bless their hearts.”
The worst thing about that video might be the confusion it inspires. “Do I stab my eyes out with a fork and then take an icepick to my eardrums, or the other way around?” is quite the postmodern dilemma.
