L. Frank Baum

Philosopher Neil Evernden wrote that vivisectionists cut animal vocal cords so they did not have to hear the tortured animal cry as they conducted experiments. Vivisectionists silenced the animal and therefore did not acknowledge it s a tortured being. Right of passage into the scientific way of being centers on the ability to apply the knife to the vocal cords - not just of the dog on the table - but to life itself. It s about silencing voice then - and reflects the silencing of voices today. We are on the tip of an iceberg and the iceberg runs deep and the ship is running right into it. Industrial civilization is not sustainable. We all know that. It cannot be sustainable. We could have solved these problems 50 years ago, but we are not going to solve these problems in the next 20 years. We can start, maybe. But I think we are in for a very, very difficult time. Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore. And Dorothy is not coming back to Kansas. This is not going to be easy. And like that Great Oz asked Dorothy and her friends - so are the politicians of our day - they ask us. Pay no attention the Great Oz says to the man behind the curtain. Because the great deception is alive and well. Hubbard compares yellow brick road to gold & Emerald City to the green of money. Oz is this old white guy doing his thing, pulling hi levers, lying to the people to maintain is power. This is what we have been doing as a culture for how many years ignoring the man behind the curtain. And now the chickens are going to come home to roost. A failed businessman/store owner, L. Frank Baum edited the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer newspaper before writing the Wizard of Oz.. After 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, Baum targets Native Americans in editorial for Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer on death of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull. Hubbard: That was act one. The great Wizard silencing nature. Baum editorial Sitting Bull, most renowned Sioux of modern history, is dead. He was not a Chief, but withou

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