Monsters
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/technology/23college.html?hp&ex=1130126400&en=caee4eed74533703&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Props to J. Henry Wolfe for finding this article.
As apolitical as I am, I just want to make reference to a Twilight Zone episode I saw as a kid, which is probably one of the most insightful works I've ever seen. It's called The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. In it, a small neighborhood starts experiencing weird things like power shortages, TVs going on and off, cars starting out of nowhere, and the people start coming out of their houses trying to figure out what the deal is. Someone suggests that monsters are doing it, and that the monsters are among them. Long story short, they start accusing each other of being monsters, and because of their fear, someone gets shot and everyone is at each others throats. In typical Twilight Zone fashion, the camera pulls back and two aliens sit atop a mountain watching the people. They are the ones that messed with the electricity to see what the human beings would do. In the end they are so disgusted by our behavior and our vulnerablilty to fear, they fly off into space, never to return to earth.
If you find it at Blockbuster, I suggest you see it.
I refuse to let people instill fear in me. To have me waste my days as an obedient drone, doing whatever someone says because I fear Hell, "The Terrorists", or the monster living under my bed.
I will not let them control me.
Because living a life that's been held back by fear, that is truly scary.
Props to J. Henry Wolfe for finding this article.
As apolitical as I am, I just want to make reference to a Twilight Zone episode I saw as a kid, which is probably one of the most insightful works I've ever seen. It's called The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. In it, a small neighborhood starts experiencing weird things like power shortages, TVs going on and off, cars starting out of nowhere, and the people start coming out of their houses trying to figure out what the deal is. Someone suggests that monsters are doing it, and that the monsters are among them. Long story short, they start accusing each other of being monsters, and because of their fear, someone gets shot and everyone is at each others throats. In typical Twilight Zone fashion, the camera pulls back and two aliens sit atop a mountain watching the people. They are the ones that messed with the electricity to see what the human beings would do. In the end they are so disgusted by our behavior and our vulnerablilty to fear, they fly off into space, never to return to earth.
If you find it at Blockbuster, I suggest you see it.
I refuse to let people instill fear in me. To have me waste my days as an obedient drone, doing whatever someone says because I fear Hell, "The Terrorists", or the monster living under my bed.
I will not let them control me.
Because living a life that's been held back by fear, that is truly scary.