Posted by
crossbow on Thursday, October 30, 2008 6:02:08 PM
One of my favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone is entitled :The Obsolete Man. In this episode starring Burgess Meredith and Fritz Weaver a totalitarian Sate rules where Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace. Romney Wordsworth (Meredith) is on trial -his crime is being obsolete in this society. He is a librarian(a death sentance) and owns a Bible (also a death sentence). Prosecuting for the State is the chancellor(Weaver) who expresses why the State is superior and the likes of Wordsworth are obsolete.Well, I do not want to spoil the plot for those who have'nt seen it yet but in the end we find out who's thinking is truly "obsolete" .This episode is reflective to what is happing right here and now. In our schools we teach we came from monkeys, God is outlawed(thanks to the ACLU)babys are thrown away like garbage because of the madness of abortion, and we have a presidential canadate(and party)that seems hellbent in setting up a marxcist leaning system to "spread the wealth".I do believe this was tried before and it did not turn out very well. It was called the Soviet Union. We are close people-so close in voting away the very heart and soul that has kept America prosperious and free for over 200 years. The indavidual-with indavidual liberty to forge their own path is in danger in becoming "obsolete" because so many are perfectly willing to have government swoop down-take control and "save" them. Call me old fashioned but I believe very differently.This country was forged in the hearts of indaviduals who knew good and well that their liberty came down from a creator that it and them. The ideology of those who want to change this nation from a constitutional republic to something else is truly obsolete because so many countrys that tried totalitarian/socialist society are now on the asheap of history. They fail because there will always be those who will fight for the indavidual values and liberties that made men free thus, kept America free for over 200 years. I am glad to be one of them. I hope and pray that a world like the episode like The Obsolete Man does not come to be. If it does at least we know what is truly "obsolete".