Serling’s words from 1960 echo presciently today

I always enjoyed Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone (1959-64)” growing up. I recently re-watched the March 10, 1960, episode: “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” It is amazing how his closing narration is so appropriate today, 65 years later.

“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout,” Serling said. “There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices ... to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill ... and suspicion can destroy ... and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own — for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is ... that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”

John Go

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