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"I AM THE NIGHT" - (Episode from the Original Twilight Zo...
5 years ago
Woke up early this morning and found an old Twilight Zone episode called "I Am The Night - Color Me Black" that featured some familiar faces George 'Goober' Lindsay as a mean Sheriff's Deputy and Ivan Dixon (Sgt. Kinchlow from Hogan's Heroes) as a Protestant Minister.
The plot of the story is a white man was scheduled to be hung for killing another white guy who was brutally beating an African American man. Remember, this was filmed in 1964 during the time of racial unrest in America, so the 'town people' backed the verdict and were outside waiting for the hanging to take place. However, it sky was pitch black that morning, even as the time moved towards noon. It was an eerie kind of darkness that ONLY covered that town. Even the Sheriff and Editor of the town's newspaper noticed the darkness as they discussed how vital evidence was withheld that would have helped the condemned man during his rushed trial. It was the Minister who observed the high level of hatred in the town and how that hatred seemed to be causing the darkness to loom over the town. As the hour neared for the hanging, the town people gathered and wanted the Sheriff to hurry up and kill the man. After the hanging, the sky got even darker. Listening to a radio, there were now MORE darkness regions on the earth that were growing,
Rod Serling's words about hatred being a virus really stirred me. It was as if he was speaking to this current generation of people all around the globe. Why is there so much hatred in the world today? Why are there so many divisions and more things that divide us than unite us? It's easy for us to point the finger of blame at politics, but there seems to be deeper divisions (especially in America) that go far beyond simple 'Us versus Them' politics.
Will a day ever come that all of us can simply 'get along' again? Be strong in our own beliefs while realizing that others may hold different opinions from our own? Why is it always "You Better Agree With Me or You're my enemy" kind of thinking that dominates society today? Between the Far Left, the Far Right, Political Correctness and Cancel Culture, are we getting any closer to a more unified society or drifting further from it?
I don't know. Perhaps this is why I prefer the fictional 'world' of the Colmaton Universe to the present situation in our own world. It's nice to dream, imagine and envision, but none of that solves our basic human problem: Can we all just get along?
Ok, my rant is over. I have disabled comments due to the fact that I'm afraid that commentary may become explosive arguments (which would defeat the goal of my ranting).
Just think about it, ok?
The plot of the story is a white man was scheduled to be hung for killing another white guy who was brutally beating an African American man. Remember, this was filmed in 1964 during the time of racial unrest in America, so the 'town people' backed the verdict and were outside waiting for the hanging to take place. However, it sky was pitch black that morning, even as the time moved towards noon. It was an eerie kind of darkness that ONLY covered that town. Even the Sheriff and Editor of the town's newspaper noticed the darkness as they discussed how vital evidence was withheld that would have helped the condemned man during his rushed trial. It was the Minister who observed the high level of hatred in the town and how that hatred seemed to be causing the darkness to loom over the town. As the hour neared for the hanging, the town people gathered and wanted the Sheriff to hurry up and kill the man. After the hanging, the sky got even darker. Listening to a radio, there were now MORE darkness regions on the earth that were growing,
Rod Serling's words about hatred being a virus really stirred me. It was as if he was speaking to this current generation of people all around the globe. Why is there so much hatred in the world today? Why are there so many divisions and more things that divide us than unite us? It's easy for us to point the finger of blame at politics, but there seems to be deeper divisions (especially in America) that go far beyond simple 'Us versus Them' politics.
Will a day ever come that all of us can simply 'get along' again? Be strong in our own beliefs while realizing that others may hold different opinions from our own? Why is it always "You Better Agree With Me or You're my enemy" kind of thinking that dominates society today? Between the Far Left, the Far Right, Political Correctness and Cancel Culture, are we getting any closer to a more unified society or drifting further from it?
I don't know. Perhaps this is why I prefer the fictional 'world' of the Colmaton Universe to the present situation in our own world. It's nice to dream, imagine and envision, but none of that solves our basic human problem: Can we all just get along?
Ok, my rant is over. I have disabled comments due to the fact that I'm afraid that commentary may become explosive arguments (which would defeat the goal of my ranting).
Just think about it, ok?
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