Monday, July 29, 2024

The Twilight Zone predicted this

 "California took a step closer to state-mandated tranny surgery by requiring schools not to tell parents about their children changing sex identity." D.S.


Don Surber (substack.com)  
"A reader pointing to the anti-Semitic riots in Washington by the spoiled brats of socialism last week made a reference to Billy Mumy and the Twilight Zone episode, It’s A Good Life.

"In it, Mumy plays an 8-year-old boy named Anthony whose telepathic powers terrorize his small town in Ohio.

"Anthony had not reached the age of reason, which is why he used his supernatural powers capriciously. He did not realize his actions had consequences. This led to death and destruction with the boy sending people who think a bad thought about him to the cornfield.

"The episode was set in his parent’s living room with him and a half-dozen or so adults. None dared confront him or challenge him. They were struck by fear.

"Finally, one man gotets drunk on brandy and does. Mumy’s character got mad and turned him into a jack-in-the-box. His head bobbing back and forth was more than his wife can handle and she begged that he be sent to the cornfield. Wish granted.

"The episode ended with the boy creating more havoc by having it snow, which would kill the crops they needed to eat. The adults did [nothing]. They pretended everything was fine.

"I always saw the episode as a cautionary tale about Baby Boomers who were an outsized group in 1959 that was changing culture and later downstream politics.

"The boy was not the villain. The cowardly adults were." . . .

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