The late great Rod Serling wrote,produced, and introduced many of his Twilight Zone episodes.All of these excellent little stories were morality plays. One episode in particular reminds me of the state of the world today." I Am The Night Color Me Black," was a story of a great unnatural darkness spreading over the world due to the meanness and hatred of mankind. Sure this was a metaphor for the cold war and the troubled 1960's but it definitely is a relevant story for today. Look at the spreading hatred of 2013. America is is more divided now than during the civil war. Congress refused to allocate prompt emergency aid for hurricane victims. A majority of house congressmen want to defund social programs for the poor. Terrorism and war are destroying the Middle East. Countries all over the world, including this one, are trying to restrict the freedom women should have over their own bodies. Religious leaders allow the destruction of children's souls and then protect the defilers. More than 300 million weapons of personal destruction go unregulated with more on the way.In the Twilight Zone episode darkness slowly covered the earth. In 2013 maybe the metaphorical darkness will take the form of dark clouds from monstrous weather patterns spreading over the abused planet.
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