tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post8073282086651766056..comments2024-03-16T00:26:41.051-04:00Comments on Scaramouche: PC Takes a Licking From Lessingscaramouchehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04380374512378209528noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post-79293514589745754952011-03-22T16:32:17.886-04:002011-03-22T16:32:17.886-04:00You're onto something there, Moshe. As someone...You're onto something there, Moshe. As someone who grew up watching Rod and the Twilight Zone (both left a lasting impression) I have often thought how precient that show was. For instance, when Islamists natter on about how stupendous sharia is, I am reminded of the TZ episode "To Serve Man" (the one about aliens who pretend to be altruistic but who are actually anything but, their "scripture" To Serve Man" being a book of recipes in which humans are the protein.) And the climate change freaks, the one who have all contingencies covered (if it's getting hotter, that's because of climate change; if it's getting colder, ditto) reminds me of the episode wherein everyone's suffering from intense heat because the Earth is drawing closer to the Sun, but, no, it's really a dream, and the Earth is moving away from the Sun and getting colder.<br /><br />And that episode where the freckled-face lad tyrannizes his family and the people in his town by "thinking" them into the cornfield when they do something to displease him--he's any number of capricious tyrants, including "human rights" commissars and other enforcers of PC.scaramouchehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04380374512378209528noreply@blogger.com