Rod Serling on fascism: "Logic is an enemy and Truth is a menace"

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

A very prescient man.

[rurallib]

1. IIRC a soldier in WWII who faced fascism up close

[Liberal In Texas]

2. Serling was a national treasure who died too young.

Many of the themes in his TV shows were morality tales. He was an original Antifa.

One example of many:



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...

[North Shore Chicago]

3. This man

was true blue. Nearly every episode of The Twilight Zone held a moral lesson. He was a paratrooper in the Army, and I believe he would have observations for our current cadet bone-spurs.

[Chainfire]

4. I remember watching that episode as a 9 year old

It was terrifying. Today, the opening monologue is even more so.

[ampm]

5. Man born before his time.

So many people who word still today resonate as if they are writing for us in the now. I watch old movies that look as though they were talking about today. Were they trying to wake us up so we didn't have to repeat another history?