So, we’ve had yet another of those claims that THE WIZARD OF OZ is a satire of Populist Politics: Concerning the Wizard of Oz
THE WIZARD OF OZ is actually a satire by Frank L. Baum, debunking the moon landings as a hoax.
It’s obvious if you take a few minutes to think about it.
Dorothy lives in Kansas (a barren flat plain, like the sets they used for the moon) with her Auntie Em, and the word “moon” starts with “Em.” She is taken to Oz by a twister, symbolic of the twisting of reality that the U.S. government imposed on us. She lands in Munchkinland (another “M”, symbolizing the trip to the moon) and remember that Baron Van Munchkinhausen was a famous ficticious legendary character who took a trip to the moon.
Dorothy gets silver slippers from the witch, and the moon is always described as silver. She starts on the path of yellow brick – yellow for the sun, symbolic of Apollo (thus the Apollo mission), the ancient Greek God of the sun – in contrast to silver for the moon. The brick of the road is symbolic of the mud of earth as opposed to the dust of the fake moon.
Her companion is the dog Toto, meaning that the whole moon landing is a hoax “in toto.” Toto travels in a little carrying basket, symbolic of the lunar module.
She meets a scarecrow (crops), a tin man (industry) and a lion (animal life) – none of those things exist on the moon, so this is a symbolic way of saying that they didn’t really fly to the moon. They fall asleep in a poppy field (there are no fields of any kind), and sleep happens from lack of atmosphere. If astronauts had really landed on the moon, they would have fallen unconscious.
They go to Emerald City (an allusion to the old legend that the moon is made of green cheese). The Wizard appears to them as a large, round face – the man in the moon!
Note also the abundance of colors in Oz – red poppies, yellow brick road, blue Munchkinland, green Emerald City. But there are no colors like that on the moon. She melts the Wicked Witch with water, and there is no water on the moon. See again, how Baum uses all these things that don’t exist on the moon to be symbolic of the fact that Dorothy (mankind) never really went to the moon.
The winged monkeys are symbolic of the astronauts, who are just trained monkeys (performers) and minions of the evil powers in the Dark Castle of the Government. Dorothy brings back the witch’s broomstick, like the astronauts brought back moon rocks, and everyone knows that you can’t fly on a broomstick – the moon rocks are no more real than a flying broomstick.
And the final proof: the Wizard’s balloon is labeled “OMAHA.” Replace the OM with the letter that comes between them, N. Remember that THE WIZARD OF OZ was written in 1901, and the sum 1+9+0+1 = 11, so replace the H (from Hollywood) with the 11th letter that follows H, namely S (from “staged”). And OMAHA is decoded to read NASA!
It’s obvious when you look at it. The truth behind the WIZARD OF OZ is that Frank L. Baum believed the moon landing to be a hoax, and symbolized it in his book.