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raccoon

(31,111 posts)
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 06:42 AM Feb 2017

If you're not familiar with this Twilight Zone episode, in these times, it seems appropriate.

"He's Alive" is a fourth-season episode of The Twilight Zone. It tells of an American neo-Nazi who is inspired by the ghost of Adolf Hitler. A personal passion of Rod Serling, it concludes that figures such as Hitler will always be alive so long as prejudice and ignorance persist.


Rod Serling's words at the end of the episode:

“Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist.

Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%27s_Alive
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If you're not familiar with this Twilight Zone episode, in these times, it seems appropriate. (Original Post) raccoon Feb 2017 OP
Rod Serling-genius. narnian60 Feb 2017 #1
Agree MFM008 Feb 2017 #2
I am old enough to remember watching it in its first airing or its first rerun. John1956PA Feb 2017 #3
Every generation has to kill him dead and make sure he's dead good uponit7771 Feb 2017 #4
Also the film "The Dead Zone" PCIntern Feb 2017 #5

John1956PA

(2,654 posts)
3. I am old enough to remember watching it in its first airing or its first rerun.
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 09:33 AM
Feb 2017

The scene near the end wherein the mentor steps out of the shadows and reveals his identity has stuck with me all these years. Thanks for posting.

PCIntern

(25,554 posts)
5. Also the film "The Dead Zone"
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 10:07 AM
Feb 2017

With Christopher Walken.

He knows this guy running for President is a fascist in Mainstream clothes.

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