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Inspired or perhaps hoodwinked into reviewing and revising my opinion of The Twilight Zone, I’m watching Walking Distance. As a child, I saw the ham-handedness, the melodramatic obviousness of what were and are supposed to be Whoa! mind-blowing concepts. For example, in this episode, our man Sloan remarks in the drugstore how the proprietor was always sleepingContinue reading “The Twilight Zone Revisited and Reviewed: Walking Distance, Season One, Episode Five”

America is aspirational. It has always been more about ideals than origins. That is in part why reviewing our history has been necessary and controversial, because so much of what was considered traditional history focused on ideals and excluded obvious contradictions. Originally, and for some time thereafter, the truths held to be self-evident in theContinue reading “THE AMERICAN ASPIRATION”

Mr. Spock, Get Us Out of Here! Even as a child I could see problems with the original Star Trek, particularly in terms of social and psychological concepts not only in the characters but also in the narratives and assumptions about progress. Technology had made amazing breakthroughs. Social relationships were, however, more than stagnant. TheyContinue reading “Star Trek Reflections, Warp One”