I was listening to my new favorite Internet talk and music program recently, Ghosts of the Republic. One of the guests on this show talked about individual sovereignty and the concept of artificial entities he referred to as a “straw man.” I’ve heard these words used in terms of a philosophical argument or position, but not in terms of a legal entity. So I googled the term in order to find out more information. I didn’t find anything that concretely solidified the concept in my mind, but I was able to find an interesting article that tied the concept of the straw man to one of my favorite movies that appears occasionally in conspiracy lore: The Wizard of Oz.
I first experienced the idea of The Wizard of Oz having some level of secret meaning by another movie called Eyes Wide Shut. It’s a pretty popular movie among folks who are into conspiracies. It also happened to be directed by classic filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, which I guess helped its notoriety. After watching that movie, I was pretty puzzled with all these strange rainbow references, so I started researching further. This led me to find conspiracies about mind control and sex slavery and secret programs like Project Monarch and Project MKULTRA and their ties to The Wizard of Oz.
Movies like The Wizard of Oz are weird enough on their own. The secrets behind those movies are downright distressing. I could blame the sleepless nights on Google, but knowing the whole story isn’t so bad once you learn to settle down and deal with it. Since my first exposure to the world of conspiracies and film, I have decided that I will never take what a movie (or the world) was literally showing me at face value again.
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