Does The Wonderful Wizard of Oz have a hidden message? - David B. Parker
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Date: 2020-08-22
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Mike
Populism Conflict between rural and urban. elite vs common people. Ill tell you Im no Trump supporter, but we shouldnt fail to realize that whats going on now is part of a long saga, and that Trump supporters are not just a bunch of deluded fools. Theres a lot more to it than that, and those who fail to see that, are contributing to the problem. Send Trump back to New York in 2020 but learn the lesson. He was never the problem anymore than a tumor is the cause of cancer. Whats the lesson? That we all have to find a way to live together, because no matter what your views are, the people you dont like are not going to just vanish, and its intellectually lazy to dismiss them as whatever epithets do you want to put on them.
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Populism Conflict between rural and urban. elite vs common people. Ill tell you Im no Trump supporter, but we shouldnt fail to realize that whats going on now is part of a long saga, and that Trump supporters are not just a bunch of deluded fools. Theres a lot more to it than that, and those who fail to see that, are contributing to the problem. Send Trump back to New York in 2020 but learn the lesson. He was never the problem anymore than a tumor is the cause of cancer. Whats the lesson? That we all have to find a way to live together, because no matter what your views are, the people you dont like are not going to just vanish, and its intellectually lazy to dismiss them as whatever epithets do you want to put on them.
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uhlijohn
Silver was demonetized in 1873. you forgot to mention that. Rothschild agents bribed key senators and congressman to vote for demonetization and it was dubbed the crime of '73. Farmers and many others wanted silver to be re-monetized. Yes, we had silver coinage but silver was officially demonetized and massive amounts of silver were being mined from western states and should have been coined by US Mints increasing the money supply so that American citizens could prosper, not just the elite who owned most of the gold. Silver is the money of the common man. Gold is the money of kings.
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Silver was demonetized in 1873. you forgot to mention that. Rothschild agents bribed key senators and congressman to vote for demonetization and it was dubbed the crime of '73. Farmers and many others wanted silver to be re-monetized. Yes, we had silver coinage but silver was officially demonetized and massive amounts of silver were being mined from western states and should have been coined by US Mints increasing the money supply so that American citizens could prosper, not just the elite who owned most of the gold. Silver is the money of the common man. Gold is the money of kings.
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Jerry
What if the answer to your question were both yes and no? A writer can write only what he knows. L. Frank Baum was a political and economic activist in the Progressive movement. That was what he knew. Regardless of his intentions, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz came from his store of knowledge and beliefs. Baum once said that he got the name Oz from the label on his bottom file drawer. That may have been a save on his part, since he was writing the book for children. We must remember, though, that as a writer, he was also writing it for himself.
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What if the answer to your question were both yes and no? A writer can write only what he knows. L. Frank Baum was a political and economic activist in the Progressive movement. That was what he knew. Regardless of his intentions, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz came from his store of knowledge and beliefs. Baum once said that he got the name Oz from the label on his bottom file drawer. That may have been a save on his part, since he was writing the book for children. We must remember, though, that as a writer, he was also writing it for himself.
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Tim
It's always good to point out to the Democratics that love to say the Parties switched sides in the late '60s; if you believe that tall tale, please research the William Jennings Bryan. You'll find that blacks supported McKinley, not Bryan who was too liberal for today's religious [and] too religious for today's liberals. He was a Liberal Democratic in 1915. The Parties didn't switch sides, the Blacks did. They left behind the Party that fought for them and started supporting the party that enslaved them.
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It's always good to point out to the Democratics that love to say the Parties switched sides in the late '60s; if you believe that tall tale, please research the William Jennings Bryan. You'll find that blacks supported McKinley, not Bryan who was too liberal for today's religious [and] too religious for today's liberals. He was a Liberal Democratic in 1915. The Parties didn't switch sides, the Blacks did. They left behind the Party that fought for them and started supporting the party that enslaved them.
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Robert
Makes perfect sense. Openly critiquing Americas capitalistic system and its failures would have put him at great risk, especially then. This is thought too of the author of Revelations. He was critical of the corrupt elite and he used symbolism to illustrate the horrors the masses experienced under corrupt leaders.
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Makes perfect sense. Openly critiquing Americas capitalistic system and its failures would have put him at great risk, especially then. This is thought too of the author of Revelations. He was critical of the corrupt elite and he used symbolism to illustrate the horrors the masses experienced under corrupt leaders.
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Bill
The scarecrow is seeking wisdom, the lion is seeking courage, and the tin man is seeking compassion. Its an allegory about our journey through life and what we need to navigate it successfully. We are all seeking these things outside of ourselves but they are already within.
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The scarecrow is seeking wisdom, the lion is seeking courage, and the tin man is seeking compassion. Its an allegory about our journey through life and what we need to navigate it successfully. We are all seeking these things outside of ourselves but they are already within.
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Helen
Most works of fiction are trying to express some sort of idea. When it is political the authors usually have to disguise it, for fear of reprocussions. I would not say this is far fetched. The author would not want to admit it at the time.
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Most works of fiction are trying to express some sort of idea. When it is political the authors usually have to disguise it, for fear of reprocussions. I would not say this is far fetched. The author would not want to admit it at the time.
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education
The good witch came out of the West that means the bad one was the out of the North yeah everything has a hidden message the munchkins are helpless without Oz and they're good witch!
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The good witch came out of the West that means the bad one was the out of the North yeah everything has a hidden message the munchkins are helpless without Oz and they're good witch!
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Dave
Oz can represent the facade that some people put on about themselves when in reality their just behind a curtain thinking they have control over their lives
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Oz can represent the facade that some people put on about themselves when in reality their just behind a curtain thinking they have control over their lives
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Jon
Wow this is fascinating! Never this code before! Hollywood tells you everything theyre going to do, but few get the symbolism until after the fact!
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Wow this is fascinating! Never this code before! Hollywood tells you everything theyre going to do, but few get the symbolism until after the fact!
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