Quote:
Originally Posted by Flagg
Twilight Zone “Monsters on Maple Street”
Written by US Army Airborne vet Rod Serling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mo...n_Maple_Street
Unbelievably prescient.
We seem to have forgotten(90’s) and been easily distracted(00’s-10’s) from these fundamental lessons delivered in the form of entertainment. |
The closing narration was spot on,
" The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices...to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill...and suspicion can destroy...and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own—for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.: