Wonder if there is any writing by Frank L. Baum where he, in is own words is indicating that the Wizard of Oz is an allegory of mankind's struggle vs banking cartel.
There are many that write to suggest that Tolkien's LoTR was an allegorical story representing the evils of political power, and here we have Tolkien say as much:
"You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power" (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 1995, p. 121.)
When I read a letter of Baum's where by his own words he says that Wiz of Oz is an allegory of man's relationship to the banking cartel, I will much more likely believe what his video claims.
Look into it and tell us what you find. When I did over 20 years ago what I found were several comments he made verbally and in writing saying this was not about the banking cartels. At the time I found that hard to believe because it all 'fit' so nicely together but, according to his own words, his story of oz had nothing to do with any of it.
iirc the same could be said about dark side of the moon when played alongside the wizard of Oz, if is eerie how well it fits but several members of pink floyd denied it had anything to do with the track length and placement on the album.
We had several parties in the 90's where this phenomenon was The Feature of the night.
The sync has to be perfect: Load Pink Floyd CD. Press PlayPause so the CD is paused and ready to go. Load the movie. Press Play. The MGM Lion roars 3 times at the start of the movie. You un-Pause the music at the third roar. Mute the movie. Grab beer. Album ends well before the movie ends. The cool stuff occurs during the B&W segment, goes into the colorized segment a bit. Somewhere I have a printout of all the syncs, there's a dozen or so? At the time, it was pretty damn cool, but AI today makes it seem a bit lame by comparison. Still remarkable though.
I will see what I can find but not going to waste much time with it. Learning too much tends to push out what I already know.
Here Holmes explains it best:
Here is a cut/paste from Study in Scarlet. This is just after Watson and Holmes meet and take up diggings at 221b Baker Street, and Watson is trying to figure out what Holmes is about by the level of knowledge he has in certain subjects:
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth traveled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
“You appear to be astonished,” he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. “Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.”
“To forget it!”
"You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
“But the Solar System!” I protested.
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
Wonder if there is any writing by Frank L. Baum where he, in is own words is indicating that the Wizard of Oz is an allegory of mankind's struggle vs banking cartel.
There are many that write to suggest that Tolkien's LoTR was an allegorical story representing the evils of political power, and here we have Tolkien say as much:
"You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power" (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 1995, p. 121.)
When I read a letter of Baum's where by his own words he says that Wiz of Oz is an allegory of man's relationship to the banking cartel, I will much more likely believe what his video claims.
Look into it and tell us what you find. When I did over 20 years ago what I found were several comments he made verbally and in writing saying this was not about the banking cartels. At the time I found that hard to believe because it all 'fit' so nicely together but, according to his own words, his story of oz had nothing to do with any of it.
iirc the same could be said about dark side of the moon when played alongside the wizard of Oz, if is eerie how well it fits but several members of pink floyd denied it had anything to do with the track length and placement on the album.
We had several parties in the 90's where this phenomenon was The Feature of the night.
The sync has to be perfect: Load Pink Floyd CD. Press PlayPause so the CD is paused and ready to go. Load the movie. Press Play. The MGM Lion roars 3 times at the start of the movie. You un-Pause the music at the third roar. Mute the movie. Grab beer. Album ends well before the movie ends. The cool stuff occurs during the B&W segment, goes into the colorized segment a bit. Somewhere I have a printout of all the syncs, there's a dozen or so? At the time, it was pretty damn cool, but AI today makes it seem a bit lame by comparison. Still remarkable though.
I will see what I can find but not going to waste much time with it. Learning too much tends to push out what I already know.
Here Holmes explains it best:
Here is a cut/paste from Study in Scarlet. This is just after Watson and Holmes meet and take up diggings at 221b Baker Street, and Watson is trying to figure out what Holmes is about by the level of knowledge he has in certain subjects:
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth traveled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
“You appear to be astonished,” he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. “Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.”
“To forget it!”
"You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
“But the Solar System!” I protested.
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”