it is me again. imagine

The only thing I can think of that they mean is the song "Imagine". Some people think this song is full of "cornball sentiment" (meaning trite and overly-sentimental).




I could very well be wrong. Could you post more of the sentence or put it into a little more context?

Re: it is me again. imagine


Let's rewrite the sentence:

Imagine being saved from ruin because of some cornball sentiment available in every bar and grill and truck stop in the country.

By cornball sentiment, i suspect the author refers to popular sentiment which appeals to emotion, rather than having much in the way of a logical basis. The reference to "every bar and grill and truck stop" is a reference to places to which people go to drink and eat, which are notorious as the places that "common," working class people go.

It is difficult to speak directly to the meaning without knowing what sentences preceded this sentence. However, it appears to me that the author is expressing an elitist point of view, which ascribes to working class people, to "common" people, shallow, emotional points of view. The author is alluding to the irony of being "saved" (from what? we can't know without more context) by something which ought to be despised.

if the context is needed, please visit this post
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=95073