WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Keep On Rockin’ In The Twilight Zone
byVanderleunonFebruary 1, 2022
Rod Serling: I want you to imagine a future, a not too distant future, where actors and musicians work on behalf of multi-national mega-corporations who control all the governments of the world and work in tandem with unelected global technocrats. Imagine Elvis Presley telling those of his adoring fans who do not get themselves injected with an experimental toxin, for a virus that is no more deadly to them than the flu, that they are selfish killing machines putting all of mankind in danger by believing their bodies didn’t belong to these governments, corporations or the least intelligent and most neurotic of society. Imagine if you will these famous figures working on behalf of all-powerful institutions to suppress freedom, bodily autonomy, and civil liberties while believing themselves to be stewards of righteousness and goodwill. In such a future, you will have entered the… Twilight Zone New Normal. — – The Good Citizen
As I was watching that Rod Serling episode it reminded me of my baby grandson – a happy child aged only 16 months, couldn’t be brighter or more wonderful and yet he seems to possess an inborn sense of caution that is evident all the time- he’s looking out for himself and looking out to anyone or any thing that he needs to defend himself against – us that the human condition? Cautious ?
KCKFebruary 1, 2022, 6:39 PM
RS had a fresh memory of the Axis powers and their incredible crimes. And, he was living in the era of the new Cold War. But, as an 8 year old kid, I had none of that. I had TV, a movie house down the street, a grade school a little further down the same street, and my only cares in the world were family and neighbors. I suggest that my generation listens to Twilight Zone as outsiders in the story. Will we get the potential future he warned us of?
VanderleunFebruary 1, 2022, 10:57 PM
Not just fresh but, how shall I say it, vivid: “Serling’s time in Leyte shaped his writing and political views for the rest of his life. He saw death every day while in the Philippines, at the hands of his enemies and his allies, and through freak accidents such as that which killed another Jewish private, Melvin Levy. Levy was delivering a comic monologue for the platoon as they rested under a palm tree when a food crate was dropped from a plane above, decapitating him. “
KCKFebruary 2, 2022, 3:10 AM
Right! Now I recall that RS was in the infantry (I think).
I’m not qualified to critique, but I consider his writing to be of high standard.
gwbnycFebruary 2, 2022, 8:34 AM
Airborne.
Almost missed the height requirement, check my math on that one.
KCKFebruary 2, 2022, 9:28 AM
I will forgive him that.
rocdoctomFebruary 1, 2022, 7:25 PM
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more
Ten Years After, “I’d Love to Change the World”
Lounge Against The MachineFebruary 1, 2022, 9:33 PM
Raging on behalf of the machine. Reminds me of the cartoon from a page compilation earlier that shows the neofeudal managerial class living large in mansions and pools while the little people live in favelas and shanties right next door.
Nothing is as it seems in Clown World.
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
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Green Pants Interior by Klahn
Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
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I made twelve years old in 1965 and television provided a lot of this back then.
It was prescient.
Eric Burden said the world is a ghetto, I say the world is a silly cartoon, with bloody fangs.
Blood fangs & watch out for the barbed tail.
History repeating itself.
I see those bad ass republicans are talking Inpeachment, of Plugs, when their back in control! Yea right
Anymore a Republican is really a democrat who talks out the right side of his or her mouths, not the left.
All fucking losers.
“Canadian farmers break through police barricades to support Truckers who blocked the US CANADA highway.”:
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/02/01/that-went-well-3/
As I was watching that Rod Serling episode it reminded me of my baby grandson – a happy child aged only 16 months, couldn’t be brighter or more wonderful and yet he seems to possess an inborn sense of caution that is evident all the time- he’s looking out for himself and looking out to anyone or any thing that he needs to defend himself against – us that the human condition? Cautious ?
RS had a fresh memory of the Axis powers and their incredible crimes. And, he was living in the era of the new Cold War. But, as an 8 year old kid, I had none of that. I had TV, a movie house down the street, a grade school a little further down the same street, and my only cares in the world were family and neighbors. I suggest that my generation listens to Twilight Zone as outsiders in the story. Will we get the potential future he warned us of?
Not just fresh but, how shall I say it, vivid: “Serling’s time in Leyte shaped his writing and political views for the rest of his life. He saw death every day while in the Philippines, at the hands of his enemies and his allies, and through freak accidents such as that which killed another Jewish private, Melvin Levy. Levy was delivering a comic monologue for the platoon as they rested under a palm tree when a food crate was dropped from a plane above, decapitating him. “
Right! Now I recall that RS was in the infantry (I think).
I’m not qualified to critique, but I consider his writing to be of high standard.
Airborne.
Almost missed the height requirement, check my math on that one.
I will forgive him that.
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more
Ten Years After, “I’d Love to Change the World”
Raging on behalf of the machine. Reminds me of the cartoon from a page compilation earlier that shows the neofeudal managerial class living large in mansions and pools while the little people live in favelas and shanties right next door.
Nothing is as it seems in Clown World.