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I had always heard the writer based the entire story on the political scene of his time....
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This is a great video and source of info, and I like the part about "the yellow brick road"....
So in Rome they used copper and brass for money, aka "cheap money", Caesar wanted gold coins with his image, the senate hated this and killed him, but it was too late and the wealthy had cornered the gold market so to speak. So you go to 90% less currency in fluctuation, and that remaining 10%, all owned by the rich, eventually the empire collapses....
Also, the people Jesus chased from the temple, "bankers" of the time, with a monopoly on their silver coin, and a value they chose for it, basically robbing from the poor on the most sacred of ground. Now I see why he was so angry. Humans have been making the same mistakes over and over again throughout history, like a record on skip. So it never hurts to look to the past, perhaps to get an idea of how to even attempt to fix the current problems of today IMO. The examples of above was greed at its finest, how ya gonna fix greed however?
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07/04/2011 02:09 am
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I would say the morale of the two hour story, debt based money is bad. Aristotle knew it, Andrew Jackson knew it, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison knew it, and of course Frank Baum knew it. Big banks are bad (wicked witch of the east and west aka JP Morgan and Rockefeller) and the ones today, let them fail....
Heck North Dakota (state bank owned by the people) seems to have the right idea....
My big question is.... If the systems put into place by Lincoln or Jackson were so great, how come they did not stay in place, in reference to a non debt based currency? Probably answer my own question here, but I would say because the big banks simply hired someone to kill whoever got in their way, aka Garfield, Lincoln, tried to kill Jackson, etc.....
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07/04/2011 04:05 am
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Edited by Libertad
07/04/2011 10:13 am
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Humans have been making the same mistakes over and over again throughout history, like a record on skip. Yep. That's because we have a completely new group come on the scene about every 25 or so years. Part of the ritual of life is that we get to make our own mistakes... and, boy, do we ever!  Unfortunately, a lot of folks do not pay attention to what has already happened and they keep wanting to test ideas that already failed long ago. Guess what? They STILL fail! None of that data seems to dissuade them, however. |
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Each time I watch the Secret of Oz I get more out of it. Very informative documentary.  Quote:
My big question is.... If the systems put into place by Lincoln or Jackson were so great, how come they did not stay in place, in reference to a non debt based currency? Probably answer my own question here, but I would say because the big banks simply hired someone to kill whoever got in their way, aka Garfield, Lincoln, tried to kill Jackson, etc..... I think so, they bribed, lied, assassinated...what ever it took to get their way. Edited by GoThunder
07/10/2011 12:04 pm
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I think that the history is spot-on, but the metaphors from the book are selected carefully while some of the others are neglected. If you're going to analyze a novel, analyze the whole thing, not the bits and pieces that fit for you.
For example, they missed out great analogies like the greenback to the emerald glasses, the great wall to ANY wall or ghetto that divides a people (Great Wall of China, Berlin Wall, Warsaw, pick a wall from Sao Paulo). The little person was omitted (munchkins and the winkies). One important symbol that they missed is the Golden Cap, which grants wishes undertaken by winged monkeys. Obviously this second golden object neutralizes their whole agenda of "having to walk the golden road with silver slippers". That idea is gone now because do you walk the golden cap, too? That would detract from their overall point of needing silver and gold in tandem with each other. They also missed the killer wolves, the East and West division...... It's almost as if they talked about everything surrounding the novel, but they forgot to talk about the novel in detail. This documentary should be viewed as a history lesson, and not a lesson in literature (FYI).
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07/11/2011 10:25 am
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