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TexasTowelie

(127,018 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 01:24 AM 12 hrs ago

The Twilight Zone's "The Shelter" Is the Perfect Parable for This Moment - Steve Shives



This analysis examines a classic television episode to explore how societal stress impacts interpersonal relationships. It connects the narrative's themes of panic and division to contemporary political and social events. The discussion highlights how extreme circumstances can unmask the true nature of neighbors and friends.



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The Twilight Zone's "The Shelter" Is the Perfect Parable for This Moment - Steve Shives (Original Post) TexasTowelie 12 hrs ago OP
I remeber that one...good one BlueWaveNeverEnd 12 hrs ago #1
They were all great but I like "To Serve Man" the best ... with one slight mod. usonian 12 hrs ago #2
I am already there jfz9580m 11 hrs ago #3
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street BaronChocula 10 hrs ago #4

jfz9580m

(17,060 posts)
3. I am already there
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 02:46 AM
11 hrs ago

What I saw in 2011-2012 and then its fallout for over 13 years since has made me buckle up and tell the friends, neighbors etc I care about here in India that before this trash entrenches here further as it was even in 2011 over there, it needs to be shutdown and complaints filed and the whole taken for a postmortem to honest experts and the public eventually, without more corrupt spin offs in data science, ai, entertainment and gaming, advertising, metarverses, street mapping and worst of all malpractice riddled psychiatry.

I informed my medical marijuana company and a friend with a small vegan business and I stay in touch with my oncologist. He is busy so I sent him an NY greeting and that was it. I contacted by old pi and another scientist and serenade my former admin here.

These guys who want desperation are a menace and no. That is the point of an early introduction to this bilge to at least end it and go a parallel new path without this old shit.

Twilight Zone is awesome. During the worst period of my life in 2012 I saw..God that was hellish..I saw the one with the 5 toys and found it cathartic and saddening:



Now 14 years later as I exit this brainless bullshit finally, it is still a good episode, but I don’t feel tearfully like a toy, child etc. Total bullcrap..Bah..they wish..hucksters..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Characters_in_Search_of_an_Exit

What did they think? That people would just sit around waiting for morans to grow a brain..something that is clearly never happening. Fatuous..I am sending loads of vituperation to my old admin hoping with a sackful of sugar it make percolate into his thick skull and make him more receptive to something actually pragmatic rather than a strange mix of faux pragmatism and cloying melodrama..all humbug.

Thanks for the thread Texas Towelie.
It is not all humbug I know..Just 95% of it and all those guys..daft..them..It will ruin the other 5%. They keep these things opaque to give all the credit and material gains to all the worst people and throw all the better people under the bus. So a blanket pushback would work for them. Instead of a targeted, fine honed one, but without anymore of any of those guys.




BaronChocula

(4,470 posts)
4. The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 03:51 AM
10 hrs ago

is similar episode where neighbors panicked over an alien invasion turn on each other.

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