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Which episode most accurately predicted the modern era?


Serling was so ahead of his time. He knew fascism was coming to the United States. He just didn't quite understand how and why the left would be responsible for it. Which episode do you think most accurately depicts the dystopia we've currently enduring?

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"Number 12 Looks Just Like You"!

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"From Agnes, With Love" strangely enough. Consider if you will the modern miracle of computer dating and the amount of time we willingly surrender to these things.

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Excellent choice.

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definitely

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Conformity is an element of the left's fascism.

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None, because every episode is marred in plot holes

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that's because the left aren't responsible for it. if you talked to any women you'd actually know that.

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I talk to my wife, my mother-in-law, and other women every day. They all recognize that the left has become fascist. If you turned off NPR and paid attention to the real world you'd actually know that.

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He discussed Fascism and racism. He discussed computers and robots taking over jobs when the computer wasn't even a thing in houses yet. He discussed time travel, and parallel worlds, which is all the rage in quantum psychics right now. He touched on climate change, and he even philosophized and pondered whether we're all living in someone's dream. Much, much more... the man was truly ahead of his time.

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episode 68

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The Midnight Sun deals with climate change.

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The Midnight Sun : The Earth falls out of its orbit and starts moving toward the sun.

That is not climate change as it is discussed today.

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The left always has to reach really far to make the episodes about them then think the ones that are actually about them are about somebody else.

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No it doesn't. The Earth moved out of its orbit.

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The Obsolete Man.

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Yup. The State as absolute control freak.

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Yes. Burgess Meredith's work on TZ is perhaps the best of his career. Well worth checking out for those who have only seen him on Batman or in the Rocky franchise.

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Or the Puff the Magic Dragon Triology

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Maybe also, The Monsters are on Maple Street.

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It leaves out social media, but it does get the way people are so quick to jump to idiot conclusions.

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