Another Classic Destroyed: ‘Wizard of Oz’ Remake Goes Woke, Plans to Include LGBTQ Representation
(headlineusa.com)
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The hell. I love this place.
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).