Sedated: The Wizard of Oz and the Pre-Industrial Surveillance State

"If we fail to recognize who these central systems truly serve, and if we forfeit our capacity to pull back the curtain and think for ourselves, we surrender our freedom to the very mechanisms built to control us." The enduring tale of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is far more than a whimsical children’s fantasy; it is a sharp, deliberate political critique written at the dawn of the 20th century. L.…