Another Classic Destroyed: ‘Wizard of Oz’ Remake Goes Woke, Plans to Include LGBTQ Representation
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Did you know that the Wizard of Oz story is a metaphor for gold ownership (following the yellow brick road) and how fiat currency (the emerald city) is manipulated by Jewish bankers (the wizard behind the curtain)?
The people that Dorthy the farmer's daughter meets on her adventure all represent real people. I can't recall the story well enough to name them, but I remember that Rockefeller family are represented by someone.
Similarly, were you aware that Pinocchio is about lying Jews with big noses who ignore the moral guidance of Jesus Christ (Jiminy Cricket). The joke about sinful people having big noses is... self explanatory. This is the artwork on the original 1883 publication of The Adventures of Pinocchio. Note he is wearing a traditional Jewish hat.
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And he's a 'puppet' to boot, but wants to be seen as 'real'. Speaks to the desire for power.
GA is amazing. Always something new to learn, or a different perspective, or just a good laugh to relieve the stress and headache of the world right now.
So many layers. Can you imagine all of us working together? Look at Trump - they don't know what to do with just ONE of us, let alone all of us. A storm is coming indeed. It's us. It's knowledge, truth, and ideology. You can't fight ideas with bullets.
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) has a lot of interesting metaphors and political commentary in it.
Most people have no idea that in the original story, Pinnochio starts of as a horrible little prick who attacks Geppetto before he's even finished carving him out of wood. 'Keeps trying to kick his maker.
Pinnochio later kills Jiminy Cricket (Jesus Christ) with a hammer. Does that remind you of anything?
There's even a Epstein Island style place named Pleasure Island where children go and never return and are transformed into donkeys, which was a euphemism for sex slave in the 1800s.
The story does have a happy ending when Pinnochio abandons a life of sin and greed and materialism and uses his money to help others (he essentially converts to Christianity and is saved).
I lived 70 years without even considering that, and I disagree with the idea that the Emerald City represents fiat currency or that the Wizard represents Jewish bankers, although it is true that there was a terrible financial crisis in 1893 which Baum no doubt remembered in 1899 when The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, and the whole book is about reality not being what people think it is. When confronted, the Wizard admits he's a humbug, but he solves the companions' problems like magic anyway--the solution was always in themselves, they just needed faith. The Wizard is willing to leave in shame, hardly the scheming cabal figure, but because of his essential honesty and helpfulness, all is eventually forgiven and he becomes the third most powerful magician in Oz. Glenda the Good is something of a deus ex machina in this and later books. Her story is never told, but time and again she tips the action toward success when everything looks hopeless. The Emerald City is a splendid construction but suffering a power vacuum because the rightful leader is gone, due to the machinations of various malevolent witches. There is eventually a little revolution led by Jinjur, no doubt inspired by the suffragettes. In fact, the villainy in Oz is rather more dominated by women than bankers. Finance is never a problem in Oz, where food grows on bushes, but even without food no one dies. There is no more money than there is sex. No one needs anything. The trouble makers in this world are wild animals, a very few essentially evil beings, mostly rogue witches. In two later books, the Gnomes appear, who might be a better analogy to bankers as they are fixated on precious gems and metals (but destroyed by eggs). Normally Oz is protected from them by the Deadly Desert, but like Uncle Scrooge's nemesis the Beagle Boys, the Gnomes plot constantly to conquer the Emerald City. They wouldn't do that if it was worthless fiat currency, it's the real deal. Basically Greed is the root evil in Oz.
The author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz disagrees with you about what his story represents.
And after 70 years, it's time to learn about paragraphs.
Perhaps you could provide a direct quote from Baum. The story that Baum was allegorizing economic theories of the 1890s came from a man named Littlefield.
https://www.offthegridnews.com/misc/following-the-yellow-brick-road-the-real-story-behind-%e2%80%98the-wizard-of-oz%e2%80%99/
And it can be true that, as a satirist, all current topics of his day were grist to Baum's mill. That is the point of most satire. But these conclusions were drawn by others and are not necessary to enjoy the books now. The enduring entertainment value and moral lessons of the stories is what gives them value as literature, not what others have speculated about the author's economic opinions. And if you want to speculate about what Baum thought, nowadays the hot topic would be his racism. That's all the time or paragraphs I have to give you, H. M. Professor, TE.