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I wonder if there's any way in which I could become, well more popular. Find out.

I had rather mixed emotions when I first heard John Lennon's powers of the people, you know,

you know, up to that moment I'd been only, well only

too happy to think of him as a radical spirit, a sardonic commentator on the establishment,

well a cultural hero really, but when I heard him demanding

that people get on their feet and go out into the street and start a revolution,

I couldn't help but feel, along with some others, there was something pretty

damned ironic about a multi-millionaire in joining

his comrades and brothers to rebel.

But even more troubling to me as a young rather earnest sociology lecturer was the manner in which the lyrics, well they

smelt of populism, you know the idea that there behind the facades of democracy and

the structures of liberalism was an intrinsically benevolent force called the people.

All that was needed was to arouse their basic instincts to tell them, for example,

I can't help the analogy that the Jews or the immigrants lay at the root of all their

discontents. But as recent events have shown, populism is a very complicated matter. It's very

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