“Lennon asked what governments were actually trying to achieve.” 

 

 

INSANE OBJECTIVES

A Rola Cola Ray song inspired by John Lennon

The song takes Lennon’s words directly and brings them into the present.

“I think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.”

Those were Lennon’s words in 1968. He went on to question what governments — including the American, Russian and Chinese governments — were actually trying to achieve, saying he would like to see someone put their objectives down on paper.

More than half a century later, Rola Cola Ray takes that sentence and asks a new question:

What are the objectives today?

That is where the UN agendas enter the song.

The song looks at the progression from the UN Charter of 1945, through the Stockholm Declaration, Agenda 21, the Millennium Development Goals, Rio+20 and finally the 2030 Agenda, adopted in 2015 with 2030 as its target year.

The song isn’t claiming that Lennon was predicting Agenda 2030 in 1968. He couldn’t have been. Instead, his words are the starting point for a question about the direction society has taken since he spoke them.

And that question belongs to Rola Cola Ray.

Lennon asked what governments were actually trying to achieve.

Rola Cola Ray asks: what are the objectives — and where are they taking us?

“Insane Objectives” is my interpretation, my questions and my response to a sentence spoken by John Lennon in 1968.

The words may be Lennon’s.

The song is mine.

— Rola Cola Ray

 

The words may be Lennon’s. The song is mine.