02-02-2021, 12:17 AM
(02-01-2021, 03:32 AM)Einzige Wrote:(01-30-2021, 04:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(01-27-2021, 11:15 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I was thinking of Josef Stalin, except with no more remarkable magic than a bullet to the back of the head of the 'very bad man' that he wanted to disappear into the cornfield. Maybe so was Rod Serling.
The point was that Anthony's "very bad man", was really very good, and it was Anthony, the dictator and boss whose every whim and thought had to be to his liking and pronounced "very good," that was the real "monster." And Trump was an archetypal example of the Anthony Fremont character. So was Stalin. We have met Anthony, and we have entered The Twilight Zone. So have we when we have to work for similar kinds of bosses, whom I have met in profit-making and non-profit organizations alike. Anthonys are all around us. Serling based this episode on an earlier story. Many of his episodes are allegories that teach us about the lives we lead; this one especially so. Cloris (as Mrs. Fremont) was quite aware of the monster she had given birth to, as we can tell.
Why do liberals always draw analogies to fiction in lieu of material analysis of anything? Trump is Voldemort Saruman Anthony Palpatine, but never the representative of a certain subset of a select class with specific interests, however divergent.
The arts reveal more of human nature and behavior than material analysis does.