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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: What's "Youve Got To Hide Your Love Away" About,
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On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:00:42 +0000, Norbert wrote:
>
> That's the way John Lennon was, though:  He would have these blind
> enthusiasms, only to terminate them with violent apostasies.  This
> applies to Dylan, the Maharishi, to Allen Klein, to Janov and Primal
> Scream therapy.  If only he had the sense to discern Yoko for the
> narcissistic psychopath she was.
>
> Lennon turned against his wife Cynthia and against McCartney in sick
> ways, but he had not embraced them blindly; they had earned his trust
> and respect, and it was Yoko, I believe, who engineered the destruction
> of those relationships.  That's what narcissists do, just like cult
> leaders.  A person who is severed from what stabilizes him is vulnerable
> to the narcissistic cult leader.

Well put, grim times for Beatle John.