tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318310043864039191.post7472479779852680415..comments2024-03-20T15:28:13.030-05:00Comments on The Twilight Zone Vortex: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"JPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808904189056290207noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318310043864039191.post-39087757286545882882016-10-13T13:34:20.638-05:002016-10-13T13:34:20.638-05:00Just a short note on this quoted bit:
"And wh...Just a short note on this quoted bit:<br />"And while the McCarthy era is long gone, its basic threat is one people still seem adamantly concerned with."<br /><br />While Serling was an admirer of Miller's work (and it can also be said of John W. Campbell's and Richard Matheson's works) the reason that people are still adamantly concerned with the threat, is that it was not a threat inimical to the McCarthyism era. You may not have been paying proper attention to the play or managed to forget the subject that The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street highlights. Fear. Sheer unreasoning fear of that which is different. That which is not us. That which lives inside each and every one of us. Fear. Fear leads to Anger and Anger leads to Hate and Hate leads to Suffering as we are reminded by a certain short of stature but long on patience wizened green skinned pointy eared Jedi. The Monsters are ourselves. Fear drives that monster, and it was not a new thing under McCarthyism. That fear has been with us since Cain picked up a rock and slew his brother Able. Serling (and it may be also said Miller) showed that to us monsters on all of our maple streets.<br />LibertyNotFreedomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07859388334103562714noreply@blogger.com