the good old days

We watched The Shelter last night. One of the classic Twilight Zone episodes, it’s a revealing glimpse over the thin line between perfection and panic that was the Cold War.

No moral, no message, no prophetic tract: Just a simple statement of fact. For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized. Tonight’s very small exercise in logic, from the Twilight Zone.

Thank G-d that my area of the world is civilized on the surface. I don’t relish the idea of dealing with gut-wrenching fear for the lives of one’s children. And maybe someday nobody will have to.

Enough philosophizing, I need to get some sleep!

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