The thing about a really good story, or poem, or drama, or song, or myth, or fairy tale is that interpretation is inexhaustible, that the same piece can yield new insights forever. Symbols are like this too, reconciling opposites, polyvalent, inexhaustible. This is what makes them opposite to the scientific method, which must observe from one point of view, and be reductionistic, get rid of confounding variables, shrink, in a good way, to find an aspect of the truth, often a usable aspect. I think good stories also reach down into the limbic system through the right brain, and all of that is implicit, inarticulable, a knowing that can't be voiced, but which is utterly crucial to us as humans. I don't mean to pontificate, but the woke are trying to "degrease" writing, strip it of metaphor (which apparently now is "white") and they've invaded pure-Soviet-realism-style with autofiction and sensitivity readers, so stories are just PC polemics with diverse characters. This will be the death of us if we don't drop dead from contagious vaccines. A great interpretation you've given and there are many more there to be found implicitly or explicitly. (Sorry to rant, but this is the hill I'm dying on lol)
Technically, the Wizard of Oz is not part of the cannon here, either. It's a movie that removed an important word from the title ("Wonderful") and we'll later talk about why that might have been.
What beautiful writing, at a pace and detail that takes us back in time. Thank you ..
I hesitate to post something utterly painful after something so beautiful and insightful ... but this is the story kids are being told now ... gender pronouns are so important, that biological sex can be changed like legos, and it's normal to be no gender at all.
It's culture wars, it's pharma, and it's gaslighting, and it's not about affirmation, it's about deconstructing humanity itself. It rests on the fallacy that this does no harm, and refusal to participate is disrespectful.
Maybe that spell can be broken. There's nothing solid behind the curtain.
I think this is real. The Pronoun People teaching the US Navy. These kids may mean no harm. Oh, how deep this manipulation goes. (See below for key piece in the puzzle).
But first, (I'm sorry ... or maybe this is JP Sears?)
Beyond the painfully hysterical we truly are in a cartoon, if you can bear watching that, is a valid point and a logical fallacy.
OK, calling someone a name they don't want to be called is disrespectful. They frame it (when others don't want to use Your Preferred Pronouns), as, (paraphrasing) "they don't want to be inconvenienced to address someone as they want to be addressed. That's selfish of them."
That fallacy can't stand up to reality.
OK, it's true/ mostly true that it's selfish to call someone a name that they don't want to be called when it's easy to pronounce their preferred name.
But this is beyond that, these syllables are directly connected, even if the individual asking to be called "Zir" does not realize this, to attempts to destroy humanity, language, and reality.
Then, it's disrespectful to put your how you wish to be addressed over someone else's boundary to not participate in something they feel so deeply is wrong. (Not judging individuals, and wishing them informed consent. But the forces behind it are wrong. The coercion, indoctrination, conflation of "gender nonconformity" with transgender, the push towards "postgender", and "posthuman".
This needs to be called out along with pharma. And pharma needs to be called out for their role in carving up children and blocking their puberty also.
I love this. What happened to the ruby slippers, though? Silver?
I am transported into the fantasy, but I'm also aware of the layers of meaning. The idea that truth and hope are at the end of our yellow brick road, has been destroyed, as WE know W.H.O ./what is hiding behind the curtain.
So this is a warning.
Another message? Dorothy asks for help from the (guardian) witch to save her, while Dorothy is the only one who can save herself. She has the power.
As a new puppy mama, I can't help but fall in love again with Toto. He is innocent, trusting, and depending on Dorothy.
Conclusions from Chapter 2? Good is more powerful than evil. Our guardian angels have their limits, but they have faith that we are stronger than we know, and that we will rise to the occasion and be the protectors of the innocents.
Or maybe I am just over-tired and a little tipsy :)
There are so many allegories to pull from this story. The slippers were allegedly changed to ruby red to showcase the use of Technicolor on the big screen, but there could be another intentional meaning change there. Perhaps it had to do with what the government was doing with gold and silver at the time?
Indeed. The 1890s was the decade of the bimetalism policy. Despite silver being valuable, all pegs get broken. Silver was being shown as its own currency in the land of gold. Ruby red was more dramatic, and bimetalism was no longer topical to the audience of 1939.
What I take from it is all is not as it appears to be "reported" to us. Seek the truth and it shall set you free. We have all we need already. K ow this (brains, hear, courage). And those close to you...love them ....
The thing about a really good story, or poem, or drama, or song, or myth, or fairy tale is that interpretation is inexhaustible, that the same piece can yield new insights forever. Symbols are like this too, reconciling opposites, polyvalent, inexhaustible. This is what makes them opposite to the scientific method, which must observe from one point of view, and be reductionistic, get rid of confounding variables, shrink, in a good way, to find an aspect of the truth, often a usable aspect. I think good stories also reach down into the limbic system through the right brain, and all of that is implicit, inarticulable, a knowing that can't be voiced, but which is utterly crucial to us as humans. I don't mean to pontificate, but the woke are trying to "degrease" writing, strip it of metaphor (which apparently now is "white") and they've invaded pure-Soviet-realism-style with autofiction and sensitivity readers, so stories are just PC polemics with diverse characters. This will be the death of us if we don't drop dead from contagious vaccines. A great interpretation you've given and there are many more there to be found implicitly or explicitly. (Sorry to rant, but this is the hill I'm dying on lol)
Here in Germany, the Wizard of Oz is not part of the canon. I'll follow the story and your interpretation with interest.
Technically, the Wizard of Oz is not part of the cannon here, either. It's a movie that removed an important word from the title ("Wonderful") and we'll later talk about why that might have been.
What beautiful writing, at a pace and detail that takes us back in time. Thank you ..
I hesitate to post something utterly painful after something so beautiful and insightful ... but this is the story kids are being told now ... gender pronouns are so important, that biological sex can be changed like legos, and it's normal to be no gender at all.
It's culture wars, it's pharma, and it's gaslighting, and it's not about affirmation, it's about deconstructing humanity itself. It rests on the fallacy that this does no harm, and refusal to participate is disrespectful.
Maybe that spell can be broken. There's nothing solid behind the curtain.
I think this is real. The Pronoun People teaching the US Navy. These kids may mean no harm. Oh, how deep this manipulation goes. (See below for key piece in the puzzle).
But first, (I'm sorry ... or maybe this is JP Sears?)
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1539025754029178880
Beyond the painfully hysterical we truly are in a cartoon, if you can bear watching that, is a valid point and a logical fallacy.
OK, calling someone a name they don't want to be called is disrespectful. They frame it (when others don't want to use Your Preferred Pronouns), as, (paraphrasing) "they don't want to be inconvenienced to address someone as they want to be addressed. That's selfish of them."
That fallacy can't stand up to reality.
OK, it's true/ mostly true that it's selfish to call someone a name that they don't want to be called when it's easy to pronounce their preferred name.
But this is beyond that, these syllables are directly connected, even if the individual asking to be called "Zir" does not realize this, to attempts to destroy humanity, language, and reality.
Then, it's disrespectful to put your how you wish to be addressed over someone else's boundary to not participate in something they feel so deeply is wrong. (Not judging individuals, and wishing them informed consent. But the forces behind it are wrong. The coercion, indoctrination, conflation of "gender nonconformity" with transgender, the push towards "postgender", and "posthuman".
This needs to be called out along with pharma. And pharma needs to be called out for their role in carving up children and blocking their puberty also.
This puts a lot in perspective - https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
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Jennifer Bilek
@bjportraits
https://twitter.com/bjportraits·
Nov 21, 2019
"Instituting gender identity as a legal construct deconstructs what it means to be human at core: a biologically, sexually dimorphic species.
This is the point.
Think about this carefully.
Gender is an obfuscation.
The state is deconstructing sex."
Jennifer Bilek has at least a few pieces in The Federalist about the funding behind the transgender movement. Once you see that, you can't unsee it.
I love this. What happened to the ruby slippers, though? Silver?
I am transported into the fantasy, but I'm also aware of the layers of meaning. The idea that truth and hope are at the end of our yellow brick road, has been destroyed, as WE know W.H.O ./what is hiding behind the curtain.
So this is a warning.
Another message? Dorothy asks for help from the (guardian) witch to save her, while Dorothy is the only one who can save herself. She has the power.
As a new puppy mama, I can't help but fall in love again with Toto. He is innocent, trusting, and depending on Dorothy.
Conclusions from Chapter 2? Good is more powerful than evil. Our guardian angels have their limits, but they have faith that we are stronger than we know, and that we will rise to the occasion and be the protectors of the innocents.
Or maybe I am just over-tired and a little tipsy :)
There are so many allegories to pull from this story. The slippers were allegedly changed to ruby red to showcase the use of Technicolor on the big screen, but there could be another intentional meaning change there. Perhaps it had to do with what the government was doing with gold and silver at the time?
Indeed. The 1890s was the decade of the bimetalism policy. Despite silver being valuable, all pegs get broken. Silver was being shown as its own currency in the land of gold. Ruby red was more dramatic, and bimetalism was no longer topical to the audience of 1939.
What I take from it is all is not as it appears to be "reported" to us. Seek the truth and it shall set you free. We have all we need already. K ow this (brains, hear, courage). And those close to you...love them ....
I've only seen the movie, several times on TV as a kid
when it was an annual EVENT
I had NO idea😮
Thanks for the interpretation 👍