A Better Way
I must start out by saying I respect Rod Serling. He was a sapient man. His writing was phenomenal. I enjoy listening to the dialogue of each episode of The Twilight Zone because there was true thought behind the words. It makes me think about my life and upcoming years as well as how people of the 1950's and 1960's viewed the not so distant future and the technologies that people thought would come with the 21st century. From what was written, I learn about my past. Things that were current - such as the Cold War and Space Race - were incorporated into many of the episodes. Serling was giving a commentary about those things as well. He touched on not only topics of the day, but the fears for the future. He showed the viewer how the world could be Utopian but at the same time it was also a Dystopian place just by taking a different viewpoint of a certain situation. In each episode there was someone who noted the graveness of the lifestyle humanity was living and of...
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