Anonymous 10/13/2018 (Sat) 02:57:31 No.2777 del
>>2776
Although the Wizard lacked magical powers, he was a very good psychologist, who showed the petitioners that they had the power to solve their own problems and manifest their own dreams. The Scarecrow just needed a paper diploma to realize that he had a brain. For the Tin Woodman, it was a silk heart; for the Lion, an elixir for courage. The Wizard offered to take Dorothy back to Kansas in the hot air balloon in which he had arrived years earlier, but the balloon took off before she could get on board.
Dorothy and her friends then set out to find Glinda the Good Witch of the South, who they were told could help Dorothy find her way home. On the way they faced various challenges, including a great spider that ate everything in its path and kept everyone unsafe as long as it was alive. The Lion (the Populist leader Bryan) welcomed this chance to test his new-found courage and prove he was indeed the King of Beasts. He decapitated the mighty spider with his paw, just as Bryan would have toppled the banking cartel if he had won the Presidency.
The group finally reached Glinda, who revealed that Dorothy too had the magic tokens she needed all along: the Silver Shoes on her feet would take her home. But first, said Glinda, Dorothy must give up the Golden Cap (the bankers’ restrictive gold standard that had enslaved the people).
The moral also worked for the nation itself. The economy was deep in depression, but the country’s farmlands were still fertile and its factories were ready to roll. Its entranced people merely lacked thepaper tokens called “money” that would facilitate production and trade. The people had been deluded into a belief in scarcity by defining their wealth in terms of a scarce commodity, gold. The country’s true wealth consisted of its goods and services, its resources and the creativity of its people. Like the Tin Woodman in need of oil, all it needed was a monetary medium that would allow this wealth to flow freely, circulating from the government to the people and back again, without being perpetually siphoned off into the private coffers of the bankers.