He's talking about when they were around 18 and they were playing in Hamburg, with many other bands. That was a time of playing 10, 12 hours a day, a lot of sex, a lot of drugs, etc. They were all the "bad rockers"
Then their manager grabbed them and transformed them into a pop act....dressed in suits (before they had leather jackets) and playing love songs, that were designed to reach an audience of teenage girls. In that paragraph I see frustration in Lennon about not having progressed in his proficiency because of that situation, I dont really see a worry about being authentic.
He refers to being a sellout, and even uses that phrase.It's more than just not getting to practice enough or something, although that's in there. To me, that almost sounds like, because he "sold out", he's not being a real musician. That's the best I can tease out.
I don't like him at all as a person. He left his son (Julian) and he was a violent man (he beat his first wife, Cynthia). The thing with Yoko and how he allowed himself to be that manipulated seems to me to be more related to an underdeveloped Fe in him than Fi (but maybe I'm wrong and this is unrelated to MBTI or enneagram).
I associate that kind of behavior, fairly or unfairly, of not practicing what you preach, to an (unhealthy... it should be emphasized) ENFP. Also, I am skewed a bit by his involvement with activism, which seems ENFP.
I don't see anything Ti about that at all. Ti is obsessed with internal coherency, and finds it difficult to hold conflicting ideas like that in the head (unless, perhaps... they are unconscious.) The thing is, the ENF stuff is such a part of his personality.
I cannot see an ENT past the age of 20 ever saying that "Love is all you need." (unless that was Paul's doing? ) I have not observed any trace of introverted Thinking in him.
He just seems like such a hypocrite, singing about love and peace and then being a negligent father and an abusive husband...at least McCartney was singing about love things and being the fun-loving guy, no hypocrisy there. I'd like to think that an Fi user would be more concerned about consistency in values and behavior.
I agree with you.... that's why I like Harrison, much, much better. I'm biased, admittedly, but that's not necessarily something I've observed in Fi users. Perhaps it comes out of having values and then not thinking of the consequences and implications of those values? I don't know. I'm hardly an unbiased source here, I'll admit that my impression of the ENTP archetype is much more favorable than the ENFP archetype.
I am trying to revise my personal prejudices on that, but to me he seems like a dick in the way ENFPs are dicks, not in the way ENTPS are dicks.
Do you know his enneagram type?
I don't, other than the fact that he's not a 5.
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