A new year's day present from Rod Serling
The Sci-Fi Network is having its usual Twilight Zone marathon for New Year's Day. But I have seen the episode "He's Alive," starring a very young Dennis Hopper, for the first time. Serling's closing narration, for which he earned a bucketload of hate mail, was as follows:Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare - Chicago; Los Angeles; Miami, Florida; Vincennes, Indiana; Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive.Science fiction is progressive in more ways than in its handling of technology. Guess who Serling was talking about. And remember it next time "diversity training" comes up.
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posted by Ron @ 12:04 AM
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