America’s most perceptive theological critic
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1 min readDec 2, 2017
L. Frank Baum saw America right
Seeing right is a theological event
It is godly and it is logical
It is divine and it is good
The prior two lines are synonymous
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He was right that America is about fantasizing heaven
He was right that we discover things we should have known
He was very right about fakery
as denouement
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He was sagacious when he made his
main character female
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He understood things
He was not an academic
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We can see that the distance between
Dorothy and Harry Potter
as a measure of
regression from
seeing reality through fantasy
to melding fantasy
and nihilism
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Everything is a stage
Logic is good
Reality is all
