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  • @dadoody
    @dadoody 4 роки тому +1379

    This guy can't catch a break. Survives a nuclear holocaust, breaks his glasses, ends up in a dictatorship, and then gets executed for reading so much.

    • @qsprimalaccuracy9709
      @qsprimalaccuracy9709 4 роки тому +90

      LOL!!!! 😂 And fought against Batman, on top of that!!

    • @etxsports5836
      @etxsports5836 4 роки тому +66

      Rocky Balboa needs you Mick

    • @RoseUnseen
      @RoseUnseen 4 роки тому +20

      he does get executed, BUT turns one of the guy ideal around in turn spinning the constant wheel of events.

    • @johncaputo9965
      @johncaputo9965 4 роки тому +28

      Not only that, but he has to train Rocky Balboa!

    • @bluest1524
      @bluest1524 4 роки тому +11

      Ha! Love his acting.

  • @vinsvids1
    @vinsvids1 3 роки тому +505

    "I'm a human being. I exist! And if I speak ONE thought aloud, that thought LIVES, even after I'm shoveled into my grave!"
    Brilliant.

    • @bruceenagel5934
      @bruceenagel5934 2 роки тому

      The problem now is that the " social media" companies are working on the behalf of an oppressive federal government. Any word " spoken " into the internet will disappear as if never " spoken"at all. Welcome to the dystopian future. You will own nothing/be nothing and you will be happy.

    • @Dian-kb2hg
      @Dian-kb2hg 2 роки тому

      It's sadly enough the ocean sperms pissed at the ovary land people...not actually knowing wtf to do..👉👈...going all ballistic... turning land life into they're OWN ocean sperms war... making it all a battle with everything everyone everywhere....bitching if they're a human but then for some odd reason keeps taunting others to be a human getting all bitching if life ain't wonderful ALL the time.... causing unessarry animosity....gosh this is sooo disturbingly sad.

  • @nipulkradmsinatagras8293
    @nipulkradmsinatagras8293 3 роки тому +96

    "Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace."
    That line alone hits hard in today's world.

  • @maxford7451
    @maxford7451 4 роки тому +247

    This was meant as a warning, not an instruction manual

    • @modeus9592
      @modeus9592 3 роки тому +6

      I believe you are correct sir

    • @stephenerdmann8257
      @stephenerdmann8257 3 роки тому

      GREETINGS and WELCOME! Thanks for being a Friend, come to visit often, contribute often, send all your Friends to visit, please send a membership request to the Dissenter/Disinter Group, enjoy, stephen.erdmann1.
      Comments
      Stephen Erdmann: Wow! Fakebook is at it again! It says my website is violating their 'community standards' with dangerous material. Go look for yourself at WordPress/Stephen Erdmann! My reply; "Why are you censoring my website on WordPress? it is a not-for-profit site and is bland compared to the many postings on Facebook presently. There is nothing in content than is already on Facebook. I protest, as my site is acclaimed by many members. stephen.erdmann1"
      Actually, Facebook is wrong in their review: 1) My website is a not-for-profit site and does nothing to increase my profit, other than give free information. 2) It does not require Facebook members to 'like' or force them to 'share' any article without their personal consent, and only can they do this after reviewing it and do it voluntarily. 3) I at no time pretend to be someone else, I fully tell who I am, without disguise or deception. If deception is invoked, it must be Facebook.
      In reality, the two of my Word Press articles they cite as below or 'above' their Community Standards, were HAUNTING ROSWELL LEGACY and THEY WALK NEXT TO US. You can go to my site and see those articles for yourself. There are only two or three reasons why Fakebook 'hardwired' an algorithm to censor my site: 1) It is competition to them and a threat, 2) And does not line-up with some kooky, crappy algorithm, which they always refuse to give sound reasons as to why take such an illogical stance. Omar Iamone, Trex Smith and others have found this to be true; and still have no gotten clear reasons as to their banning. As I state above, their 'list of offenses,' makes a reasonable person wonder exactly what 'Community' they are striving for, certainly not one in which the 1st Amendment and our U.S Constitution can flourish..
      To demonstrate their illogical operand and insanity you can still visit their 'scrubber' were it says: 1) They were wrong and they are 'putting back' the censored item ( They have not and did NOT, and have not as yet said 'when' that will happen). 2) They say they were wrong and the items DO follow their Community Standards. Yet, the scrubbing algorithm remains, in as much as I have tried posting Wordpress..
      To wit:
      Your post is back on Facebook
      Yesterday
      We're sorry we got this wrong. We reviewed your post again and it does follow our Community Standards.
      Delete
      OTHER MESSAGES
      This post goes against our Community Standards on spam
      CLOSED
      Your post is back on Facebook
      Yesterday
      We're sorry we got this wrong. We reviewed your post again and it does follow our Community Standards.
      ******************
      When you don't keep your promise.......you are called a .......when you lie, you are called a .........
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      Commander X
      Feb 6, 2020, 12:06 PM (2 days ago)
      to timothy, me
      Speaking of Steve. Did you know that Facebook has banned the Coxxxxxacy Jourxxx link? We can no longer put up www.conxxxxcyjouxxxx.com on Facebook or Instagram. I suppose it is because the URL has "conspiracy" in it. Go figure. They allow Nazi and white supremacist sites, but put up the word Conspiracy and they ban you.
      Conspiracy Journal says they are 'unfair' and 'unbalanced'- Unfair and Unbalanced!
      All the news that THEY don't want you to know!
      www.conxxxxacyjoxxxxl.com
      The Illuminati in action! Welcome to the New World Order! SE.
      CONXXXXCYJOUXXXX.COM
      www.conxxxxcyjouxxxx.com
      ************************************************************
      Don't use the word 'Conspiracy' in your titles, FAKEbook is flagging them; next will be 'think,' 'protect,' 'love,' 'family' and other suspicious words that are outside of the Illuminati perview and control.
      *******************************************
      Whistle Blower News: globalskywatch.com/chemtrails/ubbthreads.php…
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      WordPress 507/Stephen Erdmann Foundation --------place some facsimile on a Google search bar outside of Fakebook and it will bring up different links about 'Stephen Erdmann'. wordpresscom 507.wordpress.com....this posting will probably be a one-time event on your profile and won't be posting it again: we do this in honor of Free Speech, the battle of the 1st Amendment, and the fight to protect against the battle of destroying our Bill of Rights by the elites and corporate Monsters! Thanks for your cooperation.
      www.mymind.info/complete-history-of-the-illuminati…/…

    • @theunknowngamer5477
      @theunknowngamer5477 2 роки тому +4

      I said the same thing about the novel, 1984.
      How wrong I am....the thing IS a communist manifesto.
      Just ask the ex Public school Librarian of 43 years, and 16 years of owning a book store.
      Greenback, Sacramento, California.

    • @belowaverageangler2982
      @belowaverageangler2982 6 місяців тому +1

      To borrow a line from another TZ classic, "It's a COOKBOOK!"

    • @anonymouslyknown5112
      @anonymouslyknown5112 5 місяців тому +2

      @maxford7451. I agree, Unfortunately, it feels like this is the way America is leaning. I'm an Independent voter. Someone told me to read Project 2025, I read pretty much of it and parts of it made me think of this TZ episode.

  • @garrettelliott2565
    @garrettelliott2565 7 років тому +1235

    This is a timeless lesson that will never become obsolete.

    • @doxasophosmoros
      @doxasophosmoros 4 роки тому +7

      Then learn the lesson!

    • @lifeisabadjoke5750
      @lifeisabadjoke5750 4 роки тому +6

      Really, centuries from now people will be dealing with the same government issues

    • @doxasophosmoros
      @doxasophosmoros 4 роки тому +19

      @@lifeisabadjoke5750 not centuries, no... Weeks, months, years at maximum. It's happening now and has been for years. The USA rigging of the election to usher in socialist rule and China rule .. that's what's happened. Facts are all available too,you morons should have put it together.

    • @chrisjamison5725
      @chrisjamison5725 4 роки тому +9

      Meredith is one of the greatest actors ever, in Laughton's league actually.

    • @AV1611BibleBelievingJimmy
      @AV1611BibleBelievingJimmy 4 роки тому +8

      Too late. No one cared. No one turned to God. Now we die.

  • @andreww1212
    @andreww1212 6 років тому +1578

    It has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.
    Rod Serling pretty much predicted the future with this one.

    • @samshelton436
      @samshelton436 5 років тому +77

      Free thought has always been the enemy of a controlled state.

    • @williammoses6232
      @williammoses6232 4 роки тому +55

      indeed sounds just the so-called "news media " of the present doesn't it

    • @KickOutTheJhm
      @KickOutTheJhm 4 роки тому +25

      The system that does this has allways been here.

    • @samshelton436
      @samshelton436 4 роки тому +9

      @@KickOutTheJhm how long until the world sees it?

    • @KickOutTheJhm
      @KickOutTheJhm 4 роки тому +16

      Sam Shelton never will happen, were built from the ground up on a part of the system. We are fallen beings, but very special beings that are given outrageous amounts of power, we have to realize though that we are fallen and only grace given by God will save us.

  • @USA1-g9i
    @USA1-g9i 4 роки тому +2111

    This story line makes more sense in 2020 than it did in 1961

    • @lindacharles6581
      @lindacharles6581 4 роки тому +63

      It really does, it’s scarily real.

    • @retiredusvet4396
      @retiredusvet4396 4 роки тому +129

      Really? Try 2021, beginning 20 January.

    • @Mockduck2020
      @Mockduck2020 4 роки тому +38

      Well, in 1963 the president was assassinated. 🤷‍♀️

    • @CoffeeConnected
      @CoffeeConnected 4 роки тому +57

      That's the thing with warnings. They are often given at a time before things have got that bad, so most people don't really listen if they feel that they are living in relative comfort. The warning doesn't reflect their immediate experience.
      Often when things have got to the point where it is that bad the warnings are suppressed and probably won't reach most people.

    • @USA1-g9i
      @USA1-g9i 4 роки тому +9

      @@Mockduck2020 yep taken out by his own people.. I believe it was L. Johnson that was behind it. Any relation L. Johnson?

  • @bowieinc
    @bowieinc 4 роки тому +826

    The guy on the high stand is literally resting his hand on a book saying, “there are no books”. Excellent example of some in power.

    • @bobbyc1120
      @bobbyc1120 4 роки тому +55

      I think to him "books" represent intellectual freedom. What he has is a set of paper documents, which was seen as a totally different concept back then.

    • @scttlewis02
      @scttlewis02 4 роки тому +7

      How the heck did you see that? I am using my tv and barely make out the words

    • @efugee
      @efugee 4 роки тому +17

      Worse than books. MANILLA FOLDERS!

    • @VKURDR
      @VKURDR 4 роки тому +2

      Bro i was just gonna say that.

    • @yyz1335
      @yyz1335 4 роки тому +7

      That’s a ledger

  • @SAOrules
    @SAOrules 4 роки тому +1109

    “Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the work, dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete.”

    • @jpeg.600x2
      @jpeg.600x2 4 роки тому +69

      *joe biden shuts down entire pipeline running from Canada to America

    • @stolasish1184
      @stolasish1184 4 роки тому +115

      @@jpeg.600x2 sorry is a pipeline the top of your list as the dignity, rights & good work of mankind?

    • @hajothelen8450
      @hajothelen8450 4 роки тому +24

      i think it is 'worth', makes more sense to me then 'work'

    • @Mr_Hst
      @Mr_Hst 4 роки тому +39

      Quickly let’s apply this idea to everything we don’t like

    • @damonhicks969
      @damonhicks969 4 роки тому +28

      @@jpeg.600x2 that risks catastrophic destruction to native lands and water.

  • @rodmandealerman3297
    @rodmandealerman3297 4 роки тому +639

    Rod Serling, and The Twilight Zone, will NEVER be obsolete.

    • @JohnDoe-tt6bh
      @JohnDoe-tt6bh 4 роки тому +7

      The new one is unfortunately.

    • @rodmandealerman3297
      @rodmandealerman3297 4 роки тому +4

      @@JohnDoe-tt6bh Unfortunately, I must agree.

    • @SweetHere111
      @SweetHere111 4 роки тому +4

      Until they decide to ban or censor it. Lots and lots of censoring going on nowadays....

    • @SatanAzerath
      @SatanAzerath 4 роки тому

      But what about The Scary Door?

    • @marcuswalters8093
      @marcuswalters8093 4 роки тому +3

      Which actually is a bad thing. I'd love for Serling's fables to have no bearing on our lives beyond a curiosity.

  • @MrUndersolo
    @MrUndersolo 4 роки тому +1712

    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky

    • @oznerriznick2474
      @oznerriznick2474 4 роки тому +19

      Or reading the wrong ones and doing what they tell ya'...

    • @popsucks1322
      @popsucks1322 4 роки тому +16

      Ive only read a few fictions and i know for a fact i understand how things work better than anyone else. The biggest crime is thinking with a handful of bumpersticker quotes and absolutism.

    • @jewsownthemedia3811
      @jewsownthemedia3811 4 роки тому +6

      Oi vey.
      Liberal nonsense.

    • @marcusa.fromthebay7514
      @marcusa.fromthebay7514 4 роки тому +4

      Amen! (and LISTENING to audiobooks doesn't count because they diminish both the listener's limits of imagination and their individual potential to maximize the skill of comprehension)

    • @thrashpondopons2776
      @thrashpondopons2776 4 роки тому +3

      'There is only one thing in the World worse than being witty... & that, is NOT being witty.'

  • @SeppeBerger
    @SeppeBerger Місяць тому +11

    More relevant today than ever.

  • @SynthoidSounds
    @SynthoidSounds 4 роки тому +432

    In any totalitarian regime . . . "One iron rule, logic is an enemy and truth is a menace . . . " truer words have rarely been spoken.

    • @richardscathouse
      @richardscathouse 4 роки тому +24

      I wonder what Mr.Sterling would think of today's America? 🤭🤭🤭🤭☠

    • @ProperLogicalDebate
      @ProperLogicalDebate 4 роки тому +8

      @@richardscathouse Some would say that the last four years were an example while others dred the next two. Who knows.

    • @AlexanderTheGreat1000
      @AlexanderTheGreat1000 4 роки тому +3

      Wow

    • @lelandframe1029
      @lelandframe1029 4 роки тому +8

      @@richardscathouse He would have said, "l WARNED you--but you didn't listen!"

    • @RedcoatsReturn
      @RedcoatsReturn 4 роки тому +9

      Unfortunately half the people are logical and truthful and the other half pretend to themselves....that they are.

  • @geraldtrudeau3223
    @geraldtrudeau3223 4 роки тому +669

    This episode has haunted me since I first saw it, when it first aired. And now I feel like I'm seeing it come true right before my eyes.

    • @stolasish1184
      @stolasish1184 4 роки тому +25

      @Toxic Male how dare you talk about the death of literature & truth while using that image. Your party banned & burned books because it did not align with it’s, yes, toxic ideology, and you dare subvert the fear of truth being lost to bring us back to those days?! How expected. (Fyi at this moment he’s using four arms on a white background lined with red aligned in the shape of a swastika.) I don’t care how much you might claim to be ironic or someone who has offended the delicate sensibilities of an anti-facist, i will know how you act, and i will always be justified in my offense when it comes to this.

    • @unsureprobablymaybe3527
      @unsureprobablymaybe3527 4 роки тому +5

      @@stolasish1184 lol its four arms

    • @kenetickups6146
      @kenetickups6146 4 роки тому +6

      @Toxic Male funny, because you want it to come true

    • @alvaromontesdeoca7053
      @alvaromontesdeoca7053 4 роки тому +5

      It scared me too when I was 10

    • @yourefuckingmumm8756
      @yourefuckingmumm8756 4 роки тому +2

      @Toxic Male enjoy being right adolf

  • @rgd963
    @rgd963 6 років тому +781

    Where one burns books, one will soon burn people." - Heinrich Heine

    • @dannyreyna2821
      @dannyreyna2821 5 років тому +11

      They already have...
      They already have.

    • @JamesLoweryHypnotherapy
      @JamesLoweryHypnotherapy 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah, just ask Giordano Bruno. Oh wait....

    • @bradwiehn6448
      @bradwiehn6448 4 роки тому +9

      @John Smith I only ever hear about conservative Christians wanting to censor books they don't like.

    • @alexcorsi6403
      @alexcorsi6403 4 роки тому +13

      Like blm and antifa in portland recently.

    • @raymondfrye5017
      @raymondfrye5017 4 роки тому +2

      Yes, and while non-aryan literature is burning at 451°Fahrenheit, humans are burning at quite lower temperatures.

  • @elithelonewolf2677
    @elithelonewolf2677 3 роки тому +48

    "If I speak ONE thought aloud, THAT thought LIVES!! Even after I'm shoveled into my grave!
    Man I love that line

  • @VladMatejka
    @VladMatejka 4 роки тому +156

    I love the setup of this scene. The obscenely long table, the podium, and the usage of the microphone. All tools to make one feel powerless and make those upon them justified in their perceived stature. Sometimes we use those items to give voice and bring people together. Other times it is the exact opposite. We see this everywhere in our world today from the smallest boardroom to the podiums that powerful people speak at

    • @garyspence2128
      @garyspence2128 2 роки тому +9

      Looks like the table that Putin sits at. 50 yds long..

    • @lawrencelewis2592
      @lawrencelewis2592 2 роки тому +4

      Mussolini did that kind of thing- a long walk to his desk, men staring at you, all to make you feel insignificant.

    • @jaimlawson
      @jaimlawson Рік тому

      @@garyspence2128 that is exactly what I was thinking

  • @vinceA3748
    @vinceA3748 4 роки тому +36

    "...logic is an enemy and truth is a menace." Rod Serling was amazing. This is one of my favorite episodes.

  • @EGarrett01
    @EGarrett01 4 роки тому +213

    "If I speak one thought aloud, that thought lives. Even after I'm shoveled into my grave."

    • @CrazycruxGaming
      @CrazycruxGaming 4 роки тому +7

      "Go ahead. Shoot me. You'll only kill a man." -Che Guavara

    • @youBrakeIHonk
      @youBrakeIHonk 4 роки тому +8

      Not if Twitter or the MSM has anything to say about it

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 3 роки тому +3

      If only that were actually true. Spoken thoughts can and are silenced.

    • @EGarrett01
      @EGarrett01 3 роки тому +3

      @@LordVader1094 Unfortunately so, but if it's the truth, it can be discovered again and again.

    • @mistermax3034
      @mistermax3034 3 роки тому +1

      @@CrazycruxGaming A psychopath?

  • @williamhiggins842
    @williamhiggins842 4 роки тому +42

    I will never forget watching this show every week at my Father's knee and just being mesmerized by the ideas put forth by Rod Serling and his screenwriters.That was over fifty years ago this show is as awesome today as it was then.Burgess Meredith always played an intelligent, interesting character.What a great show!

  • @johndonwood4305
    @johndonwood4305 5 років тому +442

    I love how the Chancellor picks up his microphone at 2:37 as if to subtly suggest that he has a right to judge Mr Wordsworth as obsolete just because his voice is loud as someone who loses an argument would shout down their opponent.

    • @bxbuff
      @bxbuff 4 роки тому +66

      Today, instead of becoming louder, they just shut you up by saying, "You're racist...."

    • @ianthomas1201
      @ianthomas1201 4 роки тому +38

      @@bxbuff or by saying "fake news", or still, by shouting louder, and repeating vague slogans.

    • @kotaroatani9800
      @kotaroatani9800 4 роки тому +27

      @@ianthomas1201 Yeah but the MSM is FAKE NEWS, they are not NEWS organizations anymore, they are just ACTIVISTS and spread Propaganda..

    • @talos4971
      @talos4971 4 роки тому +16

      I'm so glad I don't have a Twitter account!!!!

    • @jerrypeukert5732
      @jerrypeukert5732 4 роки тому +12

      leftist tactics equals antifa

  • @EliLebowiczComedy
    @EliLebowiczComedy 8 років тому +450

    Makes sense that the man who had all the time in the world to read would become a librarian.

    • @jeremiahwhite2624
      @jeremiahwhite2624 7 років тому +18

      Hahahahaha oh wow, I just noticed that's the same person lol.

    • @NaturalCanopy
      @NaturalCanopy 5 років тому +15

      and later would train Rocky Balboa

    • @MelonMan
      @MelonMan 5 років тому +5

      is it also mr. dingle from the episode mr dingle the strong? or am i just going insane

    • @satan3959
      @satan3959 5 років тому +5

      And would also cook up schemes to take down "Batman"

    • @doxasophosmoros
      @doxasophosmoros 4 роки тому +6

      It's actually about china, moron. Learn about ccp and Maoist china, which is current today, and who they still worship and religion is banned . Idiots. You don't even know who the real enemy is... Which is China's plan since late 80s, fools.

  • @bearb1asting
    @bearb1asting 4 роки тому +184

    Oh man. This becomes terrifyingly relevant

    • @oginaz
      @oginaz 3 роки тому +17

      @@mplundr it was still relevant. President Trump just helped shed some light on what many of us have known for decades. He was trying to save America from communism

    • @ChazMcGutter
      @ChazMcGutter 3 роки тому +9

      @@oginaz please be satire

    • @vuilnisgod4388
      @vuilnisgod4388 3 роки тому +2

      @@oginaz please become funny

    • @Allenryan819
      @Allenryan819 3 роки тому +14

      @studio bauhaus lol which side is oppressing ideas and thoughts though Social media hint it’s not conservatism?

    • @Krobusss
      @Krobusss 3 роки тому +11

      @@mplundr it’s your side that is censoring speech and cancelling everyone not Trump or Republicans you dishonest sack of shit.

  • @boledle
    @boledle 2 роки тому +132

    Growing up, this was about "other countries." Today, it's about America.

  • @thefucrew9865
    @thefucrew9865 4 роки тому +146

    Burgess Meredith, one of the greatest actors ever !!!

    • @tonyennis1787
      @tonyennis1787 3 роки тому +2

      He adds goodness to everything he's in.

    • @SiriuslyBlack7
      @SiriuslyBlack7 3 роки тому +6

      The Penguin stands alone against the state for free thinkers everywhere!

    • @joshmaxwell7968
      @joshmaxwell7968 2 роки тому

      He was good in "Of Mice and Men"

    • @larryyeadeke2953
      @larryyeadeke2953 2 роки тому +1

      @@joshmaxwell7968 I haven't seen anything he was bad in.

    • @franzschubertv2874
      @franzschubertv2874 2 роки тому +1

      Your gonna eat lightning and your gonna crap thunder.

  • @eazycheetah
    @eazycheetah 4 роки тому +39

    One of the most memorable episodes for sure. I remember he read the 23rd Psalm before the end.

    • @DrJekyll38
      @DrJekyll38 3 місяці тому +3

      Also the 59th Psalm. "Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God. Be my fortress against those who are attacking me."

    • @pearlluber5849
      @pearlluber5849 3 місяці тому

      ''...from the depths I have called unto Thee O Lord. '' from Psalm 130. That the librarian read from the Psalms was so poetic and j7st as the Psalms are indeed a balm to ones soul.

  • @xandr349
    @xandr349 3 роки тому +48

    So classic, timely and never loses relevance one of my favorite twilight zone episodes. Rest in peace Rod and Burgess 🙏🏻😇

  • @sallywaters6949
    @sallywaters6949 Місяць тому +3

    True story: when I started my first job as a librarian, another person there would always tell me I would be fired any second because I wouldn't be needed, because people could find whatever they wanted on a computer, and because no one would be using books (or librarians). That was 42 years ago, I'm still doing the same job at the same place, and while much of what people need is on computers, not all of it is, and they still need help in finding and using it. Rod Serling knew: librarians will never be obsolete!

  • @josephflores9078
    @josephflores9078 7 років тому +245

    Rod sterling was ahead of his time that's for sure: A real thinker.~ True sign of intelligence is imagination ~

    • @itchyallover9
      @itchyallover9 5 років тому +8

      He definitely was ahead of his time. Genius.

    • @rainsofhealing
      @rainsofhealing 5 років тому +5

      He received many of his ideas/themes from the wacky area which he was from or lived in. TZ is the best show ever made! In my humble opinion of course

    • @doxasophosmoros
      @doxasophosmoros 4 роки тому +5

      He was a genius. Btw It's actually about china, this episode. Learn about ccp and Maoist china, which is current today, and who they still worship and religion is banned . Idiots. You don't even know who the real enemy is... Which is China's plan since late 80s, fools.

    • @Mockduck2020
      @Mockduck2020 4 роки тому +2

      He was always an activist too and many of his screenplays were rejected as being to controversial.
      Just read his Wiki page...pretty interesting.
      And so sad to know how racist this country evidently still is. 😞

    • @Zxmixercave
      @Zxmixercave 4 роки тому

      He had crippling ptsd which led to a ton of your favorite episodes.

  • @franzhaas6889
    @franzhaas6889 6 років тому +44

    THIS SHOW WILL LIVE FOR EVER. THE BEST STORYS. AMAZING WRITING AND TIMELESS IDEAS.

  • @kiramaxie6948
    @kiramaxie6948 4 роки тому +95

    -Yo what are my rights again?
    -You will be eliminated within 48 hours.

    • @richardscathouse
      @richardscathouse 4 роки тому +5

      Says the Chancler of UA-cam

    • @SuperTonyony
      @SuperTonyony 4 роки тому

      @@richardscathouse "Chancler"?

    • @clownphabetstrongwoman7305
      @clownphabetstrongwoman7305 4 роки тому +2

      "Right this way -->"

    • @JohnDoe-tt6bh
      @JohnDoe-tt6bh 4 роки тому

      @@clownphabetstrongwoman7305 LOL it's you

    • @rabbitcreative
      @rabbitcreative 4 роки тому

      Perhaps a better question might be, "what are my abilities?". Not sure what "rights" are. Abilities I can demonstrate.

  • @idipped2521
    @idipped2521 3 роки тому +72

    "Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace"
    Sounds a lot like Twitter

    • @Jantv81
      @Jantv81 Рік тому

      Joe Biden’s Administration is more like it.,Deep State Globalists vs. American Patriots fighting tyranny

    • @VenturaHighwayman
      @VenturaHighwayman 11 місяців тому

      No more

    • @blueslight2848
      @blueslight2848 9 місяців тому +2

      Even more today

  • @dooval434
    @dooval434 4 роки тому +803

    “Logic is an enemy and truth a menace!” Wait! Is this 2020?

    • @richardscathouse
      @richardscathouse 4 роки тому +12

      And 2008, 2000, 1987, 1976, 1968, 1941, 1929, 1887, 1867, when they lose control they lose it!🤬☠☠☠

    • @craterglass
      @craterglass 4 роки тому +15

      Careful. They'll come after you next.

    • @scottporter1108
      @scottporter1108 4 роки тому +14

      For liberals that is

    • @EveSkincareInternational
      @EveSkincareInternational 4 роки тому +15

      No, its 2021.

    • @Outlaw7263
      @Outlaw7263 4 роки тому +11

      "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. Remember, O Lord, The Children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem who said, "Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation." O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed. Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." -Joshua Graham, Fallout New Vegas, Honest Hearts DLC.
      Allow me to explain, when Jesus came into the temple and saw it full of money changers, wealthy elites, power hungry narcissists and slavers, did he ask them to leave? Did he cry? Did he simply give up? No. He drove them out, he braided a whip and drove those who profane his father's temple. It's one thing to forgive a slap across the cheek, but an insult to God and the free will he gave us must, no, DEMANDS correction.

  • @irishslave51
    @irishslave51 8 років тому +139

    Serling was brilliant!! This episode is now our reality!! He knew what was coming, and through this show tried to warn the masses! But like then as now, many don't listen!

    • @irishslave51
      @irishslave51 8 років тому +3

      ***** True, true! The elites keep many very busy, and they miss their rights being removed!

    • @jesushuerta1852
      @jesushuerta1852 6 років тому +3

      No, many DO listen. The problem is, those people are too lazy to fact check, and worse still, vote or act based on what they heard.

    • @wengua998
      @wengua998 5 років тому

      🐑🐑🐑🐑

    • @daysnottime999
      @daysnottime999 4 роки тому +3

      The Bible warned this. Please stop saying he only did because so many have been warning the future people of these things that will happen.
      And guess what?? There are people today who are waring us about these things that are coming right NOW.

    • @jasonlee8156
      @jasonlee8156 4 роки тому

      This applies pretty in all times and all places. Equally relevant during the 3rd reich, when the USSR was around and long before. Would have been applicable even in ancient times.

  • @jamesdrynan
    @jamesdrynan 4 роки тому +77

    Along with Orwell's 1984, ( 1949, ) and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, ( 1953, ) many authors had warned of the danger of totalitarianism. In 24 minutes, Serling dramatically captured the evilness of censorship. Elegantly acted by Meredith and Weaver as the protagonists, this episode features Serling's best writing. His intro and outro are brimming with caution against accepting dictatorship.

    • @robertcampbell8070
      @robertcampbell8070 2 роки тому +1

      Only thing is Bradbury, despite absolutely writing about the dangers of totalitarianism and censorship, was not trying to write about the dangers of totalitarianism and censorship, he was trying to write about how much he hated television.

    • @manoftruth0935
      @manoftruth0935 2 роки тому

      We warn people about the fascists trying to take control, but they ignore us because Orange Man Bad.
      Before they said that Orange Man would get us into world war 3, but under Potato Joe and Hyena Harris, we are 1 minute to midnight, and they cheer world war 3 to happen.

    • @Raymund-Swales
      @Raymund-Swales 2 роки тому

      THX 1138.

    • @BlackCover95
      @BlackCover95 2 роки тому +1

      @@robertcampbell8070
      If anything, Bradbury’s dystopia was brought upon by public apathy, rather than government overreach.

    • @robertcampbell8070
      @robertcampbell8070 2 роки тому +1

      @@BlackCover95 That's definitely true.

  • @RonMotta1972
    @RonMotta1972 3 роки тому +11

    What writing. What acting. *This* is what television should be.

  • @jamesgray7064
    @jamesgray7064 4 роки тому +392

    Don't eliminate him. He trains Rocky to win the title!!!

    • @elroyfudbucker6806
      @elroyfudbucker6806 4 роки тому +18

      ..... after playing the penguin on Batman. So it was Burgess Meredith!

    • @jamesgray7064
      @jamesgray7064 4 роки тому

      @David Floren no, that was Scatman Crothers : ) jk I know they were both in it.

    • @KevinPDunn
      @KevinPDunn 4 роки тому +2

      “You can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one gets filled first!” Grandpa Gustafson

    • @etxsports5836
      @etxsports5836 4 роки тому +1

      Rocky needs you Mick

    • @wesleycook7687
      @wesleycook7687 3 роки тому +1

      Burgess Meredith played in several Twilight Zone episodes. Obsolete, Time Enough At Last and The Printer's Devil to name a few.

  • @goingupandupandup
    @goingupandupandup 6 років тому +323

    Feels very 1984-ish or Faranheit 451

    • @osvaldoreyes34
      @osvaldoreyes34 6 років тому +25

      Feels very 2018ish

    • @AJSchultz
      @AJSchultz 6 років тому +5

      2018.11.10 1057h EST (I'm seven hours ahead of when I need to post)
      Feels very Dark Ages-ish

    • @johndonwood4305
      @johndonwood4305 5 років тому +16

      @Ethan Nguyen You forgot Animal Farm and Brave New World.

    • @RamdomView
      @RamdomView 4 роки тому +2

      That's because it was modelled off F451

    • @shawnmichaelduncan5951
      @shawnmichaelduncan5951 4 роки тому +3

      Communist Russia. Communist China. Communist Cuba. Communist East Germany communist Romania. List goes on.

  • @mack_mcmillan
    @mack_mcmillan 2 роки тому +5

    2022 comes a calling... We're not there YET, but the pace is ever hastening.

  • @sebastianb.1926
    @sebastianb.1926 4 роки тому +16

    I'm glad Burgess Meredith found work as a librarian even though he broke his glasses and couldn't read anymore.

  • @SenorZorrozzz
    @SenorZorrozzz 4 роки тому +27

    I remember when this was first on television. Hi thought it was one of the best television shows I’ve ever seen. Course I felt that way about several twilight zones. But this one this was very special and even though I was a little kid I understood it. Amazing. And now we’re living in that world but many don’t realize it

    • @tjkokos
      @tjkokos 4 роки тому +2

      trump is literally still saying the election was stolen. he can never admit it was a lie because "Truth is a Menace". if he admits he lied about even one thing, people will wonder: what else is he untruthful about. "Logic is an enemy".

  • @gedstrom
    @gedstrom 6 років тому +130

    The one thing that I really liked about this episode was that it didn't rely on any sort of supernatural person or event to accomplish the story line. This could and does happen in the everyday real life!

    • @williammoses6232
      @williammoses6232 4 роки тому +5

      you had better take a good look around this scenario is taking place in California RIGHT NOW.

    • @funkapotamus86
      @funkapotamus86 4 роки тому

      @@williammoses6232 you make reference to the State?

    • @richardscathouse
      @richardscathouse 4 роки тому

      Exactly

    • @bh5606
      @bh5606 4 роки тому +1

      This is happening.

    • @moscowvicent1995
      @moscowvicent1995 Рік тому

      He mentioned multiple times GOD, and he read the bible in the end. Just show his faith. His GOD is our GOD Is stronger than any so called man made state

  • @linkfan160
    @linkfan160 6 років тому +103

    This show was SO ahead of it's time, my god. So much more intelligent than ANYTHING that was on TV at that time. (Except for Star Trek of course.)

    • @Teutoburg09
      @Teutoburg09 5 років тому +12

      So much more intelligent than anything on TV at THIS time.

    • @hawaii5-0bloopers6
      @hawaii5-0bloopers6 4 роки тому

      This was before the first ep of Star Trek ( The Cage) was ever filmed. Not the same time.

    • @doxasophosmoros
      @doxasophosmoros 4 роки тому +2

      It's actually about china, moron. Learn about ccp and Maoist china, which is current today, and who they still worship and religion is banned . Idiots. You don't even know who the real enemy is... Which is China's plan since late 80s, fools.

    • @hawaii5-0bloopers6
      @hawaii5-0bloopers6 4 роки тому +1

      @@doxasophosmoros Could also be about the Soviet Union. North Korea too. China not the only mass-murder ing communist society.

    • @daysnottime999
      @daysnottime999 4 роки тому +1

      @@doxasophosmoros now it's America.

  • @seroberts
    @seroberts 4 роки тому +18

    One of the deepest Twilight Zone episodes I've ever seen. Absolute gold

  • @edinscot56789
    @edinscot56789 8 років тому +154

    Wordsworth defeats this tyrant in the most beautiful and powerful way.

    • @gamerzero7735
      @gamerzero7735 6 років тому +9

      He may have gone to his great reward, but he took the Chancellor down with him.

    • @bxbuff
      @bxbuff 4 роки тому +5

      He stopped one man, but didn't stop the movement....

    • @cha5
      @cha5 4 роки тому +13

      bxbuff The “movement” is something that devours itself in the end as do dictatorships in general, which is Serling’s point here.

  • @maxemomaxemo3572
    @maxemomaxemo3572 7 років тому +40

    ALL these years later....the great ROD SERLING.....still teaching & scarying the hell out of everybody.....[ including ME ].

  • @daveb8679
    @daveb8679 4 роки тому +4

    2021. Timeless message. Thank you Mr Serling

  • @manbunsareforsissies6374
    @manbunsareforsissies6374 4 роки тому +117

    Chancellor: A librarian. Having to do with bookssss..
    Romney: Yes, sir. Bookssss.

    • @burningcoal5705
      @burningcoal5705 4 роки тому +1

      *short giggle* and since there are no more bookssss there are no more library

  • @rd30000
    @rd30000 Рік тому +3

    I just watched the movie "Patterns" written by Rod Serling (it's free on UA-cam). One of the best written movies I've ever seen. Highly recommend to anyone who sees this.

  • @Peter-tg9zv
    @Peter-tg9zv 4 роки тому +242

    It’s no wonder why educational shows like this with clearly explained values and principals are not allowed today.

    • @sum1has2
      @sum1has2 4 роки тому +19

      You can still find them on MeTV. It’s rather refreshing to see these shows where morality is actually a virtue and lack of it, a warning.

    • @AndrewVelonis
      @AndrewVelonis 4 роки тому +30

      "Not allowed"? What a stupid thing to say.

    • @mikemoscato2995
      @mikemoscato2995 4 роки тому +24

      @@AndrewVelonis so stupid that corporations are doing what the govt cant do YET and censor people do to their political affiliations and beliefs! OR IS MY LOGIC MAKING YOU UNCOMFORTABLE?

    • @tylersingleton9284
      @tylersingleton9284 4 роки тому +5

      @@mikemoscato2995 the scary thing was not the chancellor but the people booing in the background.

    • @olliefoxx7165
      @olliefoxx7165 4 роки тому +20

      @@AndrewVelonis Are you a child? Do you not read or follow any news? They've been censoring and deplatforming all kinds of innocuous things.

  • @davidsatterwhite5812
    @davidsatterwhite5812 3 роки тому +15

    A highly prophetic episode of the Twilight Zone. Relevant now more than ever .

  • @WeLuv9x5
    @WeLuv9x5 2 роки тому +3

    I was a young boy when I first saw this episode… scared the hell out of me! Under this current regime, this episode is coming to fruition.
    Lesgo Brandon.

  • @jamesromeo5119
    @jamesromeo5119 4 роки тому +6

    He's not obsolete. He made Rocky a champion.

  • @STP43FAN1
    @STP43FAN1 8 років тому +111

    "Your occupation, Mister Wordsworth?"
    "A librarian."
    (The Chancellor cannot speak for a few moments)
    "A what?"

    • @mattcunningham9235
      @mattcunningham9235 5 років тому

      Its funng to me that he would be a librarian if these guys were in power and hated them. Like lol why would he even be one if it was so hated in their society?

    • @astronomydomine8055
      @astronomydomine8055 5 років тому

      @@mattcunningham9235 i do not wish to judge you but it is inevitable as a human bean..yes bean...but...do you even read?

    • @BrandonWare
      @BrandonWare 5 років тому

      @@mattcunningham9235 Calm your tits mr bot infected mind man

    • @astronomydomine8055
      @astronomydomine8055 5 років тому

      @@mattcunningham9235 alcohol...haha cheers my man :)

    • @LiberalsGettheBulletToo
      @LiberalsGettheBulletToo 4 роки тому +3

      The only thing worse might be a society were Librarians were the dictators.
      It'd be very quiet, at least. But I'd hate to see the late-fees.

  • @dadahdee
    @dadahdee 6 років тому +165

    I always found it ironic that the Chancellor is reading from and using a book!

    • @peterjanssen5901
      @peterjanssen5901 4 роки тому +17

      I think irony is lost on Dictatorships, like how absurdity is lost on folks who idolize absolute freedom without Responsibility.
      ....C'mon Snake, push the button 'n shut down the world. (or should I call ye Plissken?)

    • @BlackCover95
      @BlackCover95 4 роки тому +5

      That’s a ledger, not literature.

    • @dadahdee
      @dadahdee 4 роки тому +12

      @@BlackCover95 A ledger book! It still requires reading!

    • @dadahdee
      @dadahdee 4 роки тому +4

      @@peterjanssen5901 I shut down the third world, you win they lose. I shut down America, they win, you lose. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

    • @BlackCover95
      @BlackCover95 4 роки тому +7

      @@dadahdee
      I can’t tell if you’re joking or not, but just in case:
      It’s not the ability to read that the state doesn’t like; It’s subversive ideas.

  • @computerbanc
    @computerbanc 4 роки тому +13

    To Serve Man is my favorite episode. This one was also very deep. There will never be another show such as the Twilight Zone. Great television for sure. And the story lines were far before their time.

  • @forhisglory700
    @forhisglory700 4 роки тому +20

    We'll realize this to be true more and more as we enter 2021 & beyond.

  • @zeekstr6965
    @zeekstr6965 4 роки тому +10

    This should be shared as it is prevalent for today

  • @dhog41
    @dhog41 7 років тому +46

    Wise, perceptive man. He warned us..and yet once again, history is threatening to repeat itself.

  • @i7luv7u7q8
    @i7luv7u7q8 4 роки тому +20

    One iron rule: Logic is an enemy and Truth is a menace.

  • @Dexter101x
    @Dexter101x 6 років тому +61

    Fabulous acting by Burgess Meredith aka Romney Wordsworth, The Penguin in Barman series, and Rocky Balbao's coach in Rocky movies

    • @mikebray9458
      @mikebray9458 6 років тому +6

      Burgess Meredith is my favorite actor of all time, in part because of his work on TZ, Batman 66, and the Rocky films. Fritz Weaver chewed the F*** outta the scenery on this one too.

    • @CoffeeConnected
      @CoffeeConnected 4 роки тому

      He's also in another Twilight Zone episode which involves a library.

    • @minsapint8007
      @minsapint8007 4 роки тому

      @Donde Merlin IMDb scores 9.0 for the Time Enough At Last Twilight Zone episode

    • @johntumahab323
      @johntumahab323 4 роки тому +1

      He was also the original actor for George in "Of Mice and Men", and his performance was so iconic (along with Lon Chaney Jr. as Lenny) that it was parodied countless times in MGM cartoons.

    • @jimwilloughby
      @jimwilloughby 4 роки тому +1

      Fritz Weaver as the Chancellor.

  • @Philth_E
    @Philth_E 4 роки тому +3

    Any state, any entity, any Ideology, that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete.

    • @josephnigel8811
      @josephnigel8811 4 роки тому

      Or the man that believes they are afforded these rights without having to perform the duties necessary for both he and his kind to survive.
      A selfish man in a selfless world is a cancer that needs snuffed out.
      A "man" is not born rightious.
      He is made so.
      This is when we call them men.
      Rights shall exist only after this title is given.
      To female.
      Or to male.

  • @jeffryhammel3035
    @jeffryhammel3035 4 роки тому +15

    Damn, so glad to see a Rod Sterling revival! So happy to see today's kids watch the best of my generation.

    • @mr.inkwell4782
      @mr.inkwell4782 3 роки тому +1

      it a miracle as well as curse to hold/know much of this power of information.

    • @jeffryhammel3035
      @jeffryhammel3035 3 роки тому

      @@mr.inkwell4782 I hear you.

  • @michaelkclark6981
    @michaelkclark6981 Рік тому +1

    Such a powerful episode … i’ve watched this so many times … It’s brilliant
    Mr Wordsworth

  • @mikewhittenmusic
    @mikewhittenmusic 4 роки тому +8

    RIP Neil Peart. He was a reader of ALL books and one of Twilight Zone's biggest fans. He spent his last days volunteering at his daughters library so he could be near her as much as possible as he wasted away of brain cancer.

  • @Yetipfote
    @Yetipfote 4 роки тому +23

    20 years ago I would've rolled my eyes because of the perceived artsyness of this piece. Today I go like: *InTeReStInG!*

  • @benwillis124
    @benwillis124 2 роки тому +7

    I have been watching The Twilight Zone since I was a kid back in the 1960's. I have watched many marathons, and have loved every episode. Thought I had seen them all. But I've never seen this one. Pretty shocking this one is. Pretty terrifying when you consider how close our society is to this state today.

  • @SFAPowerhouse
    @SFAPowerhouse 3 місяці тому +2

    It's so spooky how much this resonates here during Election 2024

    • @abefroman8821
      @abefroman8821 2 місяці тому +3

      Yea good thing the American people spoke and elected the right candidate

  • @stellarmotion
    @stellarmotion 4 роки тому +92

    "Non-essential" small business owners in 2020 feel this very strongly right now.

    • @stationarywanderer7910
      @stationarywanderer7910 4 роки тому +1

      Talk about missing the point.

    • @Nicolas-wd5ec
      @Nicolas-wd5ec 4 роки тому +2

      @@stationarywanderer7910 No. I think he hit the nail on the head. Perhaps you are the one missing the point?

    • @stationarywanderer7910
      @stationarywanderer7910 4 роки тому

      @@Nicolas-wd5ec No, not at all. The point Serling was making is about something entirely else.

    • @Nicolas-wd5ec
      @Nicolas-wd5ec 4 роки тому +4

      @@stationarywanderer7910 Well, please explain. This episode talks about authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Like George Orwell's books 1984 and Animal Farm, it is based on the Soviet Union which at that time was alive and well, as well as Mao Zedong's communist China, and by then defunct European Fascism. In recognizing and pointing out the parallels in political development between the past and the present, David C. Owen makes a comment germane and timely. Authoritarianism and State overreach is always both dangerous and insidiously evil. Today, rather than destroy books and close libraries, they either outright "cancel" the books i.e. banning the books from school and the curriculum, or rewriting and "sanitize" the books, redefining words so they mean the opposite of their historical definition, (the word "racism" would be the textbook example), and finally repurposing libraries as computer cafe's. 2020 has been a terrible year for Freedom, and it looks like it's only going to get worse. Occidental governments have closed stores and business, ruining lives and destroying livelihoods of millions of citizens, because they and their jobs were deemed non-essential and unnecessary. That is totalitarianism to a "T." And the methods of their closure, coercion both legal and social, are authoritarian. George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Rod Serling, and many others, were warning us from the road we have taken.

    • @stationarywanderer7910
      @stationarywanderer7910 4 роки тому

      @@Nicolas-wd5ec Oh dear God, spare me the canned conservative rhetoric. Serling was very much a liberal, and not remotely a conservative. He would have laughed at your remarks.

  • @gajacome1
    @gajacome1 4 роки тому +6

    I have seen this episode countless times and never realized how significant his name is until today. Wordsworth. That is very clever and great writing

  • @ChrisRiley3D-Everything
    @ChrisRiley3D-Everything 4 роки тому +5

    On June 2, 1961 The Twilight Zone: foresaw the future of 2021 in The Obsolete Man

  • @grizzdebear7293
    @grizzdebear7293 4 роки тому +2

    This and the original episode need to be seen by ALL of us!!!
    Truth gives governments HICCUPS!!!!!

  • @Sanguiluna
    @Sanguiluna 8 років тому +206

    The most terrifying thing about this episode is that we as a society are closer to this state now than we were when this episode first aired. Ours is an age that prizes utilitarianism and cold pragmatism over intellect and the human spirit, in a society that worships technology and discourages the pursuit of art, literature, culture and spirituality, either because they don't benefit the state or because it threatens the state's hold over the minds and hearts of its citizens.

    • @imperatorliberal4621
      @imperatorliberal4621 8 років тому +8

      everyone is a fucking art major stfu loser

    • @Sanguiluna
      @Sanguiluna 8 років тому +17

      Imperator Liberal Found the statist

    • @Vesnicie
      @Vesnicie 6 років тому +11

      Imperator Liberal the liberal arts are not the problem. In fact they are absolutely vital and necessary, even in places where you are too narrow to find them. It is the current rampant abuse of the liberal arts that must be stopped. Try to remember that before everything got out of hand, this was the model of education for hundreds of years. Even the greatest scientists had a thorough grounding in other areas like rhetoric and logic, history, classics, literature, art and philosophy. These were the disciplines that taught them not what to think but how to think. This is what we are missing now and its loss is perhaps irrecuperable.

    • @edwardglen3377
      @edwardglen3377 6 років тому

      Yankee land was founded as a slave state u goof..

    • @adaeptzulander2928
      @adaeptzulander2928 6 років тому +4

      No it wasn't you permanent victim. Slavery at that time was and always had been a part of humanity. At the time of the founding , the idea of ending slavery was just starting.

  • @fhgfgh8794
    @fhgfgh8794 2 роки тому +4

    Beyond Classic. Absolute Masterpiece.

  • @irajohnson1101
    @irajohnson1101 4 роки тому +7

    This is powerful. It gives me so much hope.

  • @kjamison5951
    @kjamison5951 4 роки тому +9

    At first I thought the aspect ratio is wrong but then I realised, it’s correct if you are in… The Twilight Zone.

  • @winstonsmith3070
    @winstonsmith3070 4 роки тому +253

    Today he'd be called not essential.

    • @dariusjamison8888
      @dariusjamison8888 4 роки тому +39

      @Cannibal Warlord 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

    • @applepie2807
      @applepie2807 4 роки тому +5

      Wow for real

    • @dsmyify
      @dsmyify 4 роки тому +1

      Not financially viable.

    • @drumyogi9281
      @drumyogi9281 4 роки тому +4

      @Cannibal WarlordThe Great Reset drove your neighbor to suicide and the other to being homeless. Glad you care and watch TV to be informed ☠

    • @sonyflights8700
      @sonyflights8700 4 роки тому

      Mind bending

  • @wildwalkeruk
    @wildwalkeruk 6 років тому +6

    Isn't it amazing how something so engaging can be created with some good camera angles and actors, along with of course some very creative writing and not a single special effect :)

  • @daviddavenport1485
    @daviddavenport1485 6 років тому +36

    Rod Serling was way ahead of his time.

  • @fletcher373
    @fletcher373 2 роки тому +1

    My favorite episode. Such a profound message. Rod Serling interviews on yt are very interesting. Love him

  • @SEGUNDA7FEIRA
    @SEGUNDA7FEIRA 4 роки тому +30

    Jobs which are obsolete ( librarian...)
    WoW ... Year 2020

  • @443drag
    @443drag 6 років тому +15

    One of the best Twillight Zone episodes. But most things starring Burgess Meredith are pretty
    good anyway. Brilliant actor.

  • @JH-kh9lf
    @JH-kh9lf 4 роки тому +143

    "Logic is an Enemy and Truth is a menace" America 2021

    • @outlawjodiewales9295
      @outlawjodiewales9295 4 роки тому +25

      Joe’s America

    • @Outlaw7263
      @Outlaw7263 4 роки тому +4

      And it could all be stopped but nooooo we'd rather just sit and wait for someone else to do it for us.

    • @paintedpony2935
      @paintedpony2935 4 роки тому +11

      America 2016-2020.

    • @canisterbottournament
      @canisterbottournament 4 роки тому +10

      @@paintedpony2935 Go back to china

    • @nameisntdave3275
      @nameisntdave3275 4 роки тому +8

      "Truth is a menace." Meanwhile trumpers scream FAKE NEWS and storm the Capitol building chanting "HANG MIKE PENCE". They are so wrapped up in Q conspiracies they think Trump is the "shadowprez"

  • @sirreal1290
    @sirreal1290 3 роки тому +2

    It's frightening to think that in 2021, Fritz Weaver's "Chancellor character" could fit right in with the current social/political environment and actually have his own 30 minute show on either CNN or MSNBC.

  • @42lookc
    @42lookc 4 роки тому +77

    Boy, there is no way they could have known at that time how they were going to *nail it* in 2020/2021.

    • @mervunit
      @mervunit 4 роки тому +9

      Banning books and gulags existed well before this show was made.

    • @TheRealFobican
      @TheRealFobican 4 роки тому

      ~2015 - 2021

    • @iamwhoimnotimnotwhoiam4431
      @iamwhoimnotimnotwhoiam4431 4 роки тому +4

      They even have the 6 feet apart rule in play

    • @spiff3872
      @spiff3872 4 роки тому +2

      Thanks for showing the world you have no knowledge of history and are just a parrot of the cult.

    • @tjkokos
      @tjkokos 4 роки тому +3

      bruh trump style campaigns of disinformation and manipulation is nothing new. its resonant today because it was resonant then.

  • @siruranos9172
    @siruranos9172 4 роки тому +5

    Such a good scene. The acting, setting and the best of all the ideas conveyed. And that end quote: "Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the work, dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete" is enternal and can be used to critisize any entities, ideologies and states.

  • @SammySarzoza
    @SammySarzoza 4 роки тому +89

    Who's still watching in 2020 under a "Shelter in Place" order?

    • @phillippi2
      @phillippi2 4 роки тому +12

      I'm watching it in 2021, under the threat of 'the great reset'.

    • @tomjefferson2024
      @tomjefferson2024 4 роки тому +3

      Free People can not be "Ordered" These Mandates have Zero Force of Law.

    • @chriscollier7469
      @chriscollier7469 4 роки тому +3

      Its 2021. I'm sat at my home in Wales, UK. still under lockdown which was supposed to last 3 weeks, now we are into our 9th month. I waiting for the brown shirts to knock at my door to take me away for my obsolescence trial.

    • @map3384
      @map3384 4 роки тому +4

      @@chriscollier7469 Here in America the state finally found away to make the constitution obsolete. I expect the burning to commence shortly.

    • @richardscathouse
      @richardscathouse 4 роки тому +2

      Now, 2021... Still here

  • @deelynn8611
    @deelynn8611 2 роки тому +2

    Amen to that. Any state that cannot recognize the dignity of a human being is obsolete.

  • @greybone777
    @greybone777 4 роки тому +5

    Loved 60s and 70s 📺 . I'm glad to have lived long enough to be an anachronism in my own time.

  • @AJaxxAnthem
    @AJaxxAnthem 6 років тому +7

    The Twilight zone were really tuned into their predictions of our present world and future.

  • @daveshoe4574
    @daveshoe4574 4 роки тому +68

    “Logic is the enemy and truth is a menace” - so Twitter

    • @daveshoe4574
      @daveshoe4574 4 роки тому +8

      @@hiidenkiuas That doesn’t make sense neither of those entities approve of censorship which is the primary way of censoring logic and truth. Now The left and Twitter most dictatorships are more open minded when it comes to the opposition

    • @daveshoe4574
      @daveshoe4574 4 роки тому +7

      @@hiidenkiuas never have I heard anyone say that about Parler I don’t know about Reddit but two thing One only reason parler exist was the mass censorship and banning of the rights on Twitter and same thing on Reddit they banned a very large open trump page saying it was do to “ threatening cops” The left-wing openly advocates for censorship and repeatedly called for in Congress and the house.

    • @esteemedyams
      @esteemedyams 4 роки тому +1

      You couldn't even repeat what you heard 2 minutes ago.

    • @daveshoe4574
      @daveshoe4574 4 роки тому

      @@esteemedyams I said to change it up a little bit but coming to think about it actually think it’s much better than the original way

    • @daveshoe4574
      @daveshoe4574 4 роки тому +6

      @@hiidenkiuas says the fucking idiot who thinks the right censors more than the left seriously. Let just say everything you said it true the left would still be far worse because the right leave the left Platforms and start their own while the left try to take down the right platforms.

  • @ledhed5717
    @ledhed5717 2 роки тому +3

    I just watched this episode last night. Burgess Meredith was an absolute classic. The Obsolete Man, Time Enough at Last, Printers Devil, and others. A phenomenal actor.

  • @rosemarywilliams9969
    @rosemarywilliams9969 6 років тому +10

    I love how this man whos all about employee of the month becomes obsolete himself 😂 every time makes me not care so much about the work your butt of life style l use to have.

  • @LastPageReviews-bbf
    @LastPageReviews-bbf 7 років тому +130

    You cannot erase God with an edict. You cannot destroy truth by burning pages!

    • @saintq3888
      @saintq3888 6 років тому +13

      Oh, the irony in that statement.

    • @thomasgregg7527
      @thomasgregg7527 6 років тому +1

      Nice one SaintQ

    • @norbertsiewert3917
      @norbertsiewert3917 6 років тому +3

      Last Days Maze: Oh yes, you can! Hence, Soviet and Maoist communism, Pol Pot social engineering, Naziism, wierd cults. Just to name a few.

    • @tirpitz19
      @tirpitz19 6 років тому +4

      I beg the difference,for i erased God with a simple thought.

    • @rickd1412
      @rickd1412 6 років тому +12

      Maybe in your mind, but He is still there.

  • @solaceboy
    @solaceboy 4 роки тому +10

    This is where we are heading.
    Thanks a lot.

  • @EdmacZ
    @EdmacZ 3 роки тому +3

    "No Amendment to the Constitution is absolute."
    "This is not about your freedom or personal choice."
    "We have been patient. And our patience is wearing thin."
    Wake up.

  • @ericharris1853
    @ericharris1853 4 роки тому +13

    Wow I just love old movies and TV shows that predict the future it's like they saw shit coming from a mile away

  • @bub777
    @bub777 4 роки тому +33

    "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"-Network

  • @missspencer7744
    @missspencer7744 6 років тому +9

    People say rod was ahead of his time. But no one is ahead or behind their time. It was creativity at it's best in the right time it was presented, because that was the time it was meant for. For that time and for future generations to also enjoy.

  • @KeferenLeHaine
    @KeferenLeHaine 2 роки тому +1

    A lovely and timely reminder that many could find wisdom in.