"Twilight Zone Marathon" "The Obsolete Man"

[Doka]

This episode was aired 56 years ago. The Analogy is timeless, the Irony.........solid.

Watch it if can.

There is a Twilight Zone Marathon on the Sci Fi channel today. I had never seen this one. "The Obsolete Man"

But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

Serling made a Special Apperance "After" the show:

Serling's original narration was longer, but the middle section was cut for broadcast. As scripted, the original narration reads as follows (with the cut section in italics):

“ The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshiped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology which fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under "M" for "Mankind" - in The Twilight Zone. ”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obsolete_Man

[Riddick]

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ywhne

[Doka]

Thanks Riddick, I even watched it again. Lot's of food for thought.