{"id":8673,"date":"2013-07-03T10:40:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T10:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/03\/july-4th-twilight-zone-marathon\/"},"modified":"2013-07-03T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T10:40:29","slug":"july-4th-twilight-zone-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/03\/july-4th-twilight-zone-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"July 4th Twilight Zone Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starts tomorrow, muchachos<\/em>.  Begins at 8 AM Eastern and runs until 6 AM July 5th.  Schedule here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMy eyes glued to the set, my lovely wife invariably asks, "Haven't you seen that episode before?"  She doesn't get it.  I've seen 'em all numerous times each.  Hell, I've been watching 'em since 1959 when the series first aired.  But the best are inexhaustibly rich in content, delightful in execution, studded with young actors and actresses who went on to become famous alongside the now forgotten actors of yesteryear, replete with period costumes and lingo, and sprinkled with allusions to the politics of the day.  Timeless and yet a nostalgia trip.  A fine way to celebrate Independence Day.
\nCould popular art of this caliber have been produced in the Soviet Union?  Of course not.  So if you are an American, celebrate your freedom tomorrow while bemoaning how much of it we have lost 'thanks' to the liberal-left fascists.<\/span><\/p>\n

To see how much philosophical juice can be squeezed out of a Twilight Zone  episode, see here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The original series ran from 1959 to 1964. In those days it was not uncommon to hear TV condemned as a vast wasteland<\/a>. Rod Serling's work was a sterling counterexample.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hard-driving Serling<\/a> lived a short but intense life. Born in 1924, he was dead at age 50 in 1975. His four pack a day cigarette habit destroyed his heart. Imagine smoking 80 Lucky Strikes a day! <\/span>Assuming 16 hours of smoking time per day, that averages to one cigarette every twelve minutes.  He died on the operating table during an attempted bypass procedure.<\/span><\/p>\n

But who is to say that a long, healthy life is better than a short, intense one fueled by the stimulants one enjoys? That is a question for the individual, not Hillary, to decide.  To hell with you nanny-staters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next stop, the Twilight Zone.<\/span><\/p>\n

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