@VeganHiker @Pippy the post World War II era in which the original Twilight Zone series was scripted shaped Serling's and other writer's material. Many episodes are allegorical attempts in exploring authoritarianism, man's cruelty to man, and the like. Stories serve both as a means of understanding as well as warning.
@CanisPundit so much so that growing up, I had a hard time understanding what era I was in, only to find out I was always in this one. @VeganHiker
@Pippy @VeganHiker the dynamics, the psychology are timeless. The broader population's awareness, including their own susceptibility remain virtually nil.
@VeganHiker prophetic isn’t it!
@Pippy The Thirty Fathom Grave, the past is pulling me in.
@bobrush6 does it make you reflect on decisions you’ve made?
@Pippy I struggle to come up with an exact fit.
I think "The Old Man in the Cave", with its paramilitary demagogue and the deaths his "leadership" causes, is a decent candidate.
Or "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", where some aliens are able to spur a societal breakdown in a small community with a few cheap tricks.
I always come back to "A Stop at Willoughby", where a man's refuge in a realm of false nostalgia leads leads to his death. Malignant nostalgia does seem to plague us.
@Marc_T_Benedict one of the main ones I thought of was “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, there’s another I forget the name of the episode where it’s a nuclear test site set up as a town.
@Pippy The nuclear test site sounds familiar, but I'm having no luck finding it.
@Marc_T_Benedict I couldn’t either.
@Pippy Trump is an adult Anthony Fremont (Bill Mumy) who controls everything
The Twilight Zone (Classic): It's A Good Life - A Very Bad Man
https://youtu.be/QxTMbIxEj-E