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The real meaning of the Wizard of Oz…
Posted on 5/25/26 at 8:36 am
Posted on 5/25/26 at 8:36 am
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If tweet fails to load, click here. OZ = Ounces of Gold. The Yellow Brick Road = The Gold Standard.)
They told us it was a children’s story.
It was actually a warning about bankers, courts, corporations, and the legal fiction system.
Here’s the truth:
THE STRAW MAN
Not a real man, a legal creation. He receives a certificate instead of a brain… just like we receive a Birth Certificate that creates the ALL-CAPS legal PERSON.
THE TIN MAN (TIN = Taxpayer Identification Number)
A soulless machine that works until it freezes and collapses. The symbol of the worker who becomes “rusted out” by nonstop taxation and labour.
THE COWARDLY LION
Loud roar, no courage. Just like politicians, judges and officials with titles but no true authority.
THE WIZARD
Smoke, fire, and a giant hologram head… but behind the curtain is just a scared little man.
A perfect metaphor for modern government:
Illusion of authority Backed by fear No real power once the curtain is pulled back
THE WICKED WITCH (BAR & Policy Enforcers)
Controls the flying monkeys, the police. Intimidation, threats, fear. She melts when exposed to truth and lawful jurisdiction.
THE POPPY FIELD
Dorothy collapses — drugged. The others don’t — because they’re not real humans. A warning about Rockefeller medicine and mass sedation.
TOTO (Truth, Totality)
Toto = “in toto” = “the whole truth.” Small, unnoticed, but fearless. Toto pulls the curtain and exposes the illusion.
That’s why the Witch wanted him — not Dorothy. Truth is the biggest threat to the system.
THE VEIL IS FALLING
The Wizard of Oz wasn’t fantasy. It was a coded message: • The banking system is an illusion • Corporate government is a façade • Courts are theatres • The ALL-CAPS NAME is not you • The real power was always yours
One small truth collapses the whole illusion.
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Posted on 5/25/26 at 8:38 am to Placekicker
FFS
Posted on 5/25/26 at 8:40 am to Placekicker
quote:
THE POPPY FIELD
Dorothy collapses — drugged. The others don’t
Did you watch the movie? Dorothy and the Lion collapse because they're affected by the poppies. The Scarecrow and Tin Man don't because they're not biological. Of course the Tin Man rusted in the rain and the Scarecrow could get scattered about.
OZ was "O to Z" on a filing cabinet.
The broader point about everything being BS, "behind the curtain", etc., have some valid points. I think the story was trying to warn about falseness, etc., but the main thing was the grass isn't always greener. A lot of the rest of this is projection and a stretch.
Posted on 5/25/26 at 8:43 am to Placekicker
I mean…that is an interesting alignment of terminology.
My question is, who actually put that together, and how high were they?
My question is, who actually put that together, and how high were they?
Posted on 5/25/26 at 8:50 am to Placekicker
quote:L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of OZ was published in 1900
THE TIN MAN (TIN = Taxpayer Identification Number)
the concept of Taxpayer Identification Numbers didn’t exist until the introduction of the Social Security Administration in 1935
Posted on 5/25/26 at 8:51 am to Placekicker
The drugs are strong in this one.
Posted on 5/25/26 at 8:51 am to Placekicker
The drugs are strong in this one.
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:00 am to boogiewoogie1978
The Wizard of Oz is a political allegory steeped more in the populism of the turn of the 20th century.
LINK
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Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:03 am to Placekicker
And WE’RE the munchkins…I GET IT man…
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:05 am to Placekicker
The movie is just a long message telling owners to put their dog on a leash.
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:07 am to Placekicker
Get back on your meds.
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:07 am to Placekicker
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:15 am to Placekicker
Well this is certainly a take
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:18 am to Placekicker
yes pretending is fun!
the wizard of oz was one of the most successful stage plays ever written it played on broadway for a decade, it toured all over the united states in a time before movies and TV it was a cultural phenomenon.
it wasn't until 1964 that anybody ever saw anything political in it. henry littlefield a high school teacher in up state new york wrote a treatise on all of the politics hidden within the wizard of oz a children's book written in 1900.
before that everybody thought it was a story about a young girl, a scarecrow, a tin man and a cowardly lion.
the wizard of oz was one of the most successful stage plays ever written it played on broadway for a decade, it toured all over the united states in a time before movies and TV it was a cultural phenomenon.
it wasn't until 1964 that anybody ever saw anything political in it. henry littlefield a high school teacher in up state new york wrote a treatise on all of the politics hidden within the wizard of oz a children's book written in 1900.
before that everybody thought it was a story about a young girl, a scarecrow, a tin man and a cowardly lion.
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:18 am to Placekicker
But have you watched it synched to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon?
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:25 am to Placekicker
Someone has been reading some libtard’s masters thesis!
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:27 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
But have you watched it synched to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon?
Yeah Money hits right at the same time as the Technicolor so you can see the Yellow Brick Road. It’s all there man.
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:37 am to Placekicker
Some of that has basis. Some is concocted BS.
Baum wrote the Wizard of Oz coincident with the 2nd McKinley-Bryant election. Bryant was a major opponent of the gold standard. TGS was a core issue in both 1896 and 1900.
Baum's story also placed Dorothy in silver slippers, not ruby ones. Though he denied any heavy political allusion, some of the symbolism plays that way. Silver slippers skipping down a gold road to the emerald (color of money) city.
Other stuff like the TIN man is absurd though. I don't know when Tax ID Numbers first became a thing, but it was long after Baum's book, and almost certainly after the movie aired as well.
Baum wrote the Wizard of Oz coincident with the 2nd McKinley-Bryant election. Bryant was a major opponent of the gold standard. TGS was a core issue in both 1896 and 1900.
Baum's story also placed Dorothy in silver slippers, not ruby ones. Though he denied any heavy political allusion, some of the symbolism plays that way. Silver slippers skipping down a gold road to the emerald (color of money) city.
Other stuff like the TIN man is absurd though. I don't know when Tax ID Numbers first became a thing, but it was long after Baum's book, and almost certainly after the movie aired as well.
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:39 am to Placekicker
I remember smoking my first joint.
Posted on 5/25/26 at 9:40 am to Decatur
quote:
But have you watched it synched to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon?
Gotta start on the third roar of the MGM lion.
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