@@TodaysDante can you give a specific example or are you making unsubstantiated political claims 🤔 Because unsubstantiated political accusations are just en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
for the last 8 years, this is just one of the many episodes that are becoming true. As a WWII veteran, who personally knew the horrors of war and dictatorship, Rod Serling made these as fiction, and as a warning of that it COULD happen here. I'm 71, and as a kid glued to our old black and white Zenith TV (remember those ?) watching TZ, in the end, to be able to sleep at night, you kept telling yourself.. it was all just fiction.
That's true. Our country elected a senile old man in 2020 who was controlled by group of Fascists who were intent on sending their political adversaries to prison on "trumped up" charges.
We sure as fuck did NOT! And clearly, with so many millions who just blissfully and ignorantly CAST VOTES for fascism, we will NOT be learning any time soon.
Extreme crazy off the rails left or right can bring horrific results. Also addressing people’s concerns before they get so large and exaggerated keeps people a part of the whole and not feeling like they are on the outside tempted to do the wrong things. Definitely food for thought though for sure.
You forgot, " They turned the World into One Huge Graveyard and along With the Bodies Buried ; They Buried Their Compassion; Care; and Humanity as well ! " That is why these Old Buildings Still Stand As A Reminder ! "
It is astounding how much these words sound like the words of Chump, the GOP, and MAGA. Hate never really changes, does it? eta : BTW, I'm curious as to why you didn't include the "big reveal" of that episode, which was the speaker in the shadows was actually Hilter, but Hilter as an old man? And I always use this spelling of his name for, I think, obvious reasons.
Howard Caine, best known as Major Hochstetter on "Hogan's Heroes", plays a part in this story as Nick, one of the party members whose departure from the planet is prompted by the shadowy figure, becoming a martyr and rallying point, à la Horst Wessel. Bernard Fein, one of the creators of HH, also appears. Interestingly, we're just a few years from the departure from the planet of a guy by the name of "Rockwell" -- not the artist -- and there's a loose parallel between what happens to him and what happens to Dennis Hopper's character.
When I bought the box set of the complete Twilight Zone series the one episode I was eager to watch was He's Alive. I've only seen a few of the hour-long episodes and didn't like this longer format and felt these stories might have been better served in the original length. This was the case with He's Alive. It's an interesting premise but it's not enough to fill that allotted run time and the writing is (as wiry many other episodes) gets very heavy-handed at times. The idea of fascism being an ideology that lives long after those who originated it and can poison the minds of those who share a similar hatred and fear is an interesting set-up for a story. Rod Serling often used this platform to explore themes that might have encountered opposition from the network and sponsors, but he was subversive enough to hide these stories under the guise of science-fiction and fantasy. My favorite is Death's Head Revisited, which can be seen as a companion piece to this episode, but is far more effective. This suffers from some cringeworthy acting, especially by both Dennis Hopper and the actor playing Hitler. When Hopper says "neighbors" it was like hearing Frank Booth speaking decades before he came into being. If there is one subject that might have benefited from the hour-long format it should have been this one. As much as I admire Rod Serling as a man who saw in television a medium that had the potential to address topics to a wide audience, I thought his writing style was very clumsy and preachy, but given such a brief amount of time subtly had to be sacrificed to get the message across. Sadly this is still an issue. Were he still alive he'd be saddened that it had dug deeper roots in the American culture and was thriving and no longer just fringe groups who met in isolation. At the end of Death's Head Revisited a character asks why the death camps remain standing. Serling, in his narration, gives us the sobering message that they need to remain standing as a monument to the period of men's madness and when they turned it into an open grave. Serling was a man who was very concerned about the direction of humanity and tried to write about them. I highly recommend watching Submitted For Your Approval. It's a fascinating profile of Serling, especially the battles he had with networks to get his television plays presented as he had written them and not censored, which often the case.
There are several excellent Twilight Zone episodes that address fascism. The writing is excellent, and the acting and direction are top-notch. It is frightening that this is the same argument MAGAts are putting forth today -- presenting white men as a disenfranchised minority. White men ARE the franchise even though they are statistically the minority, and therein lies the problem.
Fell in love with The Twilight Zone and Rod Serling when I was way younger. The original run showed me how to mix commentary and entertainment properly (something majorly lost of major movies today) when making my own films and this is definitely one of my favorite episodes given how prescient it is. RIP Rod Serling.
Rod Serling was truly brilliant...he passed far too soon: had he been able to cut down to just three or four packs of cigarettes per diem, we could yet still have him with us...REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
I think I would pick “Judgement Night” as my favorite episode. It’s so hard to really pick one. What a great show. When I was 10 my father and I would watch Friday night. TZ and Candid Camera.
Fascism isn't an ideology, it's a method that was created by nationalist, it is a secular version of the governing structure of the Catholic Church from which it was modeled. Communism is also not an ideology, it is a protocol for how to exploit a society by colonizers, and the colonizers that created the protocol are exo-nationalist. Fascism was created as a defense to communism.
@@Freedomfred939 👈🏻this thing did exactly what Rod Serling condemned and warned about; blame OTHERS for YOUR crimes. America's fascists are a CULT incapable of learning anything, just repeating what the fűhrer tells them to think.
Stupid is as Stupid does! Sports Fans! If we spend all our time wrapped up with sports, how come tax players don't own any teams???? 36 Trillion and we own nothing! 😮
There is a last ditch effort underway to prevent Trump from assuming the US presidency. Please, everyone reading this comment, contact your congressional representatives and urge them to do their job and uphold the constitution which (according to amendment 14, section 3) expressly prohibits insurrectionists from holding the presidential office.
This episode describes the left more than the right. It assumes that the anger is fictional. But when the government purposely disobeys the law to flood the country with unvetted people from all over the world, that anger is justified.
@TodaysDante sorry to inform you, the USA, a liberal democracy, was founded by left wing radicals. In the 1860s, the radical left wing Republicans took power in the USA again. And the right wing, fought a war about it. In the 1930s, a major right wing swing in Germany took over Europe. Please learn history. Fascism is and has always been a right wing ideology.
@@bjb7587 - In the end, fascism is a complete gov takeover of the people, the laws, and the economy. The outgoing admin is doing that, with executive order rule and gov expansion over our everyday life. The incoming one seeks to stop it.
"If I had been an Italian, I am sure that I should have been wholeheartedly with you from the start to the finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. I will, however, say a word on an international aspect of fascism. Externally, your movement has rendered service to the whole world. Italy has shown that there is a way of fighting the subversive forces which can rally the masses of the people, properly led, to value and wish to defend the honor and stability of civilized society. Hereafter, no great nation will be unprovided with an ultimate means of protection against the cancerous growth of Bolshevism." ~ Winston Churchill, January 20, 1927, Rome.
I grew up on the Twilight Zone, and I fully understand where Serling and others of his generation were coming from after having experienced the horrors of WWII, but I'd also point out that history tends to run in cycles; the notion that anyone who might object to some minority must by definition be akin to a Nazi overlooks the fact that while the Nazis killed six million in the concentration camps, the Soviets in all likelihood killed over 40 million, the Chinese another 20 million or more...yet we never once hear them taken to task on any level. This is not said to excuse or overlook what the Nazis did, but how is it the case that Germany has been made to pay and pay all the way down to the present day while China is now thoroughly intertwined with our economy? The moral gymnastics required to come to terms with that conundrum are more than my old mind could comprehend; maybe yours can, if you've been sufficiently indoctrinated...
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It gives you chills. We are living in the Twilight Zone.
Truer worde have never been spoken so very clearly or still relevant today
A warning from the past to today
Trump 101. I've heard these warnings a dozen times by historians from all eras.
God, Rod Serling was a genius. A lot of foresight and social messages in his show I didn't see until I was older.
Prophetic. Who would have believed that this could happen in America?
Me.
That's Dennis Hopper! Oh man, this clip is so timely. Thanks. It will be shared.
Thanks. I didn't recognize him at first.
BA boom! Rod nailed it again!
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -attributed to Sinclair Lewis
Yes, I agree. It will come "wrapped" in these things, without actually supporting either. It perfectly describes the outgoing admin.
@@TodaysDante
No, Sinclair Lewis' quote describes Trump and his supporters very accurately.
@@TodaysDante can you give a specific example or are you making unsubstantiated political claims 🤔 Because unsubstantiated political accusations are just en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
Prescient, as Rod Seeling always was.
@@TodaysDanteDo you actually think before you comment? You don't make any sense.
He is indeed alive - in spirit. He'll always be with us. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
for the last 8 years, this is just one of the many episodes that are becoming true. As a WWII veteran, who personally knew the horrors of war and dictatorship, Rod Serling made these as fiction, and as a warning of that it COULD happen here. I'm 71, and as a kid glued to our old black and white Zenith TV (remember those ?) watching TZ, in the end, to be able to sleep at night, you kept telling yourself.. it was all just fiction.
Same age, same tv brand, same memories. I wish so earnestly it was still confined to the Twilight Zone. Be well.
I Agree with you but no offense how could you be a ww2 vet if you're only 71 ?
You were born in 1953 or 1954
@@marksandford1566 I believe @safriedrich1631 is referring to Rod Serling, not himself.
@@marksandford1566 I think the OP was referring to Rod Serling.
@@marksandford1566 He was specifically referring to Rod Serling being a WWII vet.
JFC! He knew....
and, we learned nothing.
Sounds like a MAGA rally.
I loved the Twilight zone.
America didn't learn
Ain't THAT the truth.
That's true. Our country elected a senile old man in 2020 who was controlled by group of Fascists who were intent on sending their political adversaries to prison on "trumped up" charges.
😞😔☹️😢 no!
We sure as fuck did NOT! And clearly, with so many millions who just blissfully and ignorantly CAST VOTES for fascism, we will NOT be learning any time soon.
Lol!!! Stupid people actually think Trump is Hitler, when Obama is the one who divided America.
Best to watch the whole episode
Agreed
Extreme crazy off the rails left or right can bring horrific results. Also addressing people’s concerns before they get so large and exaggerated keeps people a part of the whole and not feeling like they are on the outside tempted to do the wrong things.
Definitely food for thought though for sure.
Remember that they can never control your imagination.
Not unless you allow them to.
An even better condemnation of fascism was in the episode "Deaths-Head Revisited."
The second we forget, we become the grave diggers.
@@TodaysDante You remembered that from Serling's closing statement.
Thank you.
You forgot, " They turned the World into One Huge Graveyard and along With the Bodies Buried ; They Buried Their Compassion; Care; and Humanity as well ! " That is why these Old Buildings Still Stand As A Reminder ! "
@@allenlovell1604 - Something to dwell on and remember, not only in the Twilight Zone, but where ever men walk God's Earth.
It's an old playback. Being followed today.
Is that Dennis Hopper?
Yes
It is astounding how much these words sound like the words of Chump, the GOP, and MAGA. Hate never really changes, does it? eta : BTW, I'm curious as to why you didn't include the "big reveal" of that episode, which was the speaker in the shadows was actually Hilter, but Hilter as an old man? And I always use this spelling of his name for, I think, obvious reasons.
What?!
Sounds like Mad Maxine Waters. Confront them. Confront them everywhere!
Sounds a lot like the peaceful protests.
A very young Dennis Hopper
Howard Caine, best known as Major Hochstetter on "Hogan's Heroes", plays a part in this story as Nick, one of the party members whose departure from the planet is prompted by the shadowy figure, becoming a martyr and rallying point, à la Horst Wessel. Bernard Fein, one of the creators of HH, also appears.
Interestingly, we're just a few years from the departure from the planet of a guy by the name of "Rockwell" -- not the artist -- and there's a loose parallel between what happens to him and what happens to Dennis Hopper's character.
History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Mark Twain
The cycles of History. That is why they try to teach history.
When I bought the box set of the complete Twilight Zone series the one episode I was eager to watch was He's Alive. I've only seen a few of the hour-long episodes and didn't like this longer format and felt these stories might have been better served in the original length. This was the case with He's Alive. It's an interesting premise but it's not enough to fill that allotted run time and the writing is (as wiry many other episodes) gets very heavy-handed at times. The idea of fascism being an ideology that lives long after those who originated it and can poison the minds of those who share a similar hatred and fear is an interesting set-up for a story. Rod Serling often used this platform to explore themes that might have encountered opposition from the network and sponsors, but he was subversive enough to hide these stories under the guise of science-fiction and fantasy. My favorite is Death's Head Revisited, which can be seen as a companion piece to this episode, but is far more effective. This suffers from some cringeworthy acting, especially by both Dennis Hopper and the actor playing Hitler. When Hopper says "neighbors" it was like hearing Frank Booth speaking decades before he came into being. If there is one subject that might have benefited from the hour-long format it should have been this one. As much as I admire Rod Serling as a man who saw in television a medium that had the potential to address topics to a wide audience, I thought his writing style was very clumsy and preachy, but given such a brief amount of time subtly had to be sacrificed to get the message across. Sadly this is still an issue. Were he still alive he'd be saddened that it had dug deeper roots in the American culture and was thriving and no longer just fringe groups who met in isolation. At the end of Death's Head Revisited a character asks why the death camps remain standing. Serling, in his narration, gives us the sobering message that they need to remain standing as a monument to the period of men's madness and when they turned it into an open grave. Serling was a man who was very concerned about the direction of humanity and tried to write about them. I highly recommend watching Submitted For Your Approval. It's a fascinating profile of Serling, especially the battles he had with networks to get his television plays presented as he had written them and not censored, which often the case.
Rod Serling was only 51 when he died? I bet it was the smoking.
Heart attack.
@bhartley868 heart attack due to smoking
Hopper even looks like young Donald in his cadet uniform.
There are several excellent Twilight Zone episodes that address fascism. The writing is excellent, and the acting and direction are top-notch. It is frightening that this is the same argument MAGAts are putting forth today -- presenting white men as a disenfranchised minority. White men ARE the franchise even though they are statistically the minority, and therein lies the problem.
"statistically the majority"
Also Serling wrote Seven Days In May about an attempted far right coup
The Monsters Come to Maple Street is a bit more subtle but poignant, nonetheless.
45 and 47.
nah, 44 Hope 'n Change, separating us instead of keeping the promise to bring us together.
That could never happen here. RIGHT ?
Fell in love with The Twilight Zone and Rod Serling when I was way younger. The original run showed me how to mix commentary and entertainment properly (something majorly lost of major movies today) when making my own films and this is definitely one of my favorite episodes given how prescient it is. RIP Rod Serling.
Dennis Hopper?
a young Dennis Hopper
The GREAT Dennis Hopper...
That's one of the coolest things about this show! You see so many of the greats in their earlier days!!
Rod Serling was truly brilliant...he passed far too soon: had he been able to cut down to just three or four packs of cigarettes per diem, we could yet still have him with us...REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
: "I love the uneducated" D T
That closing narration was from the episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street".
Love TZ. Excellent episode 👍
That episode has stuck with me for sixty years. Now it has happened here.
WOW!! Right on!!
Is this a Twilight Zone clip or a Republican Party meeting?
I think I would pick “Judgement Night” as my favorite episode. It’s so hard to really pick one. What a great show. When I was 10 my father and I would watch Friday night. TZ and Candid Camera.
The Dictator Tot would ban this for the public but use all talking points.
I remember this episode .In the end the main character gives up fascist ideals
Hardly, this is a Dem strategy
@@Freedomfred939 MAGAt, your garbage can awaits u
Fascism isn't an ideology, it's a method that was created by nationalist, it is a secular version of the governing structure of the Catholic Church from which it was modeled. Communism is also not an ideology, it is a protocol for how to exploit a society by colonizers, and the colonizers that created the protocol are exo-nationalist. Fascism was created as a defense to communism.
@@Freedomfred939 troll in the dungeon
@@Freedomfred939 👈🏻this thing did exactly what Rod Serling condemned and warned about; blame OTHERS for YOUR crimes. America's fascists are a CULT incapable of learning anything, just repeating what the fűhrer tells them to think.
I guess Trump and Musk watched this episode and learned the technique.
The entire establishment both side know this technique. And both sides use it in abundance.
@@stephenlandry9343 Really? To me only one side says there isn't enough patriotism, and too many minorities, and not enough hate and prejudice.....
@@onegathers You watch too much CNN
The only party obsessed with race are the Democrats.
@@stephenlandry9343 Lets not both sides this BS. There is only one side filled with hate and retribution, and that begins and ends with the maga cult.
We didn't get the reveal of the guy speaking in shadow here - although it's obvious who he has to be.
I think he is revealed as Hitler full episode
Yes it is Hitler.
Watch the body language. Fills you in without telling you.
I figured this one out very quickly.
Watch Pressure Point 1962 with Sidney Pointer and Bobby Darrin
Great flick.
Stupid is as Stupid does! Sports Fans! If we spend all our time wrapped up with sports, how come tax players don't own any teams????
36 Trillion and we own nothing! 😮
Holy moly
…..holy shit
Welcome to the nightmare - now with Mr. T. as der fuehrer
Gotta love Rod!
There is a last ditch effort underway to prevent Trump from assuming the US presidency. Please, everyone reading this comment, contact your congressional representatives and urge them to do their job and uphold the constitution which (according to amendment 14, section 3) expressly prohibits insurrectionists from holding the presidential office.
This episode describes the left more than the right. It assumes that the anger is fictional. But when the government purposely disobeys the law to flood the country with unvetted people from all over the world, that anger is justified.
Trump was never charged with insurrection, nor were any of the protestors.
@@TodaysDantePredictable comment, perfectly in line with this video.
@TodaysDante sorry to inform you, the USA, a liberal democracy, was founded by left wing radicals.
In the 1860s, the radical left wing Republicans took power in the USA again. And the right wing, fought a war about it.
In the 1930s, a major right wing swing in Germany took over Europe.
Please learn history. Fascism is and has always been a right wing ideology.
@@bjb7587 - In the end, fascism is a complete gov takeover of the people, the laws, and the economy. The outgoing admin is doing that, with executive order rule and gov expansion over our everyday life. The incoming one seeks to stop it.
Then later Dennis became a hippie..
...who hated buses🚌 and slow traffic🛑!!!
Yeah for a movie
@@tomryan914do you like busses and slow traffic 🤔 or is that a socialtal problem we all don't care for 🤷
Thank God Donald Trump can't get around the Congress without negotiating with Democrats and that is going to piss him off
Holy crap!
He’s talking about Maxine Waters Nancy Chuck Hocul and BLM right?
Wow!
This was a much needed reminder during the Biden administration and what we have seen happening across the West, especially in the UK and Canada.
"If I had been an Italian, I am sure that I should have been wholeheartedly with you from the start to the finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. I will, however, say a word on an international aspect of fascism. Externally, your movement has rendered service to the whole world. Italy has shown that there is a way of fighting the subversive forces which can rally the masses of the people, properly led, to value and wish to defend the honor and stability of civilized society. Hereafter, no great nation will be unprovided with an ultimate means of protection against the cancerous growth of Bolshevism." ~ Winston Churchill, January 20, 1927, Rome.
I grew up on the Twilight Zone, and I fully understand where Serling and others of his generation were coming from after having experienced the horrors of WWII, but I'd also point out that history tends to run in cycles; the notion that anyone who might object to some minority must by definition be akin to a Nazi overlooks the fact that while the Nazis killed six million in the concentration camps, the Soviets in all likelihood killed over 40 million, the Chinese another 20 million or more...yet we never once hear them taken to task on any level. This is not said to excuse or overlook what the Nazis did, but how is it the case that Germany has been made to pay and pay all the way down to the present day while China is now thoroughly intertwined with our economy? The moral gymnastics required to come to terms with that conundrum are more than my old mind could comprehend; maybe yours can, if you've been sufficiently indoctrinated...
Whataboutism AND apologetics?! Amazing!
Er -- explain to us how we should go about punishing China....
"Whataboutism," BTW, is valid if the points are valid.
The sad truth is, this belief started here in America.
Please enlighten us that Socialism was created in America...
Please enlighten us as to facts that Socialist was created in America. Perhaps a Google search on the creation of Socialism will assist everyone.
@bhartley868 Not Socialism, but Social Darwinism. Facisim did originate in this country, and was, unfortunately, exported along with other ideas.
Appealing to hated, fear, and envy is not a new idea. It long precedes America.
@bjb7587 True.
Sounds just like trump!!!!
Trump😅😅🤣
Well… how about that.🤦♂️