Commercial Redemption

An allegory is the expression of truths about human conduct and experience by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions. Such was the movie The Wizard of Oz, an allegory of the state of affairs we now live in today - an allegory of the unfolding New World Order that was instituted in America via the stock-market crash of 1929 and the bankruptcy of the United States in 1933. The setting of this allegory is in Kansas - the "heartland" of America; the geographical center of the U.S.A. In came the twister - the whirling confusion of the Great Depression, the stock-market crash, the U.S. bankruptcy, and the theft of America's gold - that whisked Dorothy and Toto up into the New Order of the World; an artificial new dimension "somewhere, over the rainbow," above the solid ground of Kansas. When they landed in Oz, Dorothy commented to her little dog Toto: "Toto? I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore . . ." Exactly!.