Twilight Zone's Rod Serling Was Prophetic With This Warning

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CREDIT:

Show: The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Title: "The Obsolete Man" (Season 2 - Episode 29)
Episode Aired: Friday, June 2nd, 1961

QUOTE: "Logic Is An Enemy And Truth Is A Menace!"

In this episode, a futuristic totalitarian world, meek and mild-mannered librarian Romney Wordsworth finds himself on trial for being obsolete.

This future society has decided on everything people need to know.

There is no God and there are no books!

So, society doesn't need librarians.

Romney makes an impassioned plea about his rights and free will but the judge in the case, the Chancellor, will have nothing of it.

As such, the jury finds Romney "obsolete" and orders him to be executed.

You gotta watch this "Twilight Zone" episode, "The Obsolete Man", when you can.

While you might think this episode is futuristic. It is actually constructed from history, warning us that our future may be doomed to look like this if we fail to learn from history.

Yeah, I can see the latency of its arrival.

Nevertheless, Serling's words here are incredibly prophetic and wise.