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Shermann

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1. An odd story, that one

Sun Sep 5, 2021, 12:09 PM

Sep 2021

The town leader relies on science, but he keeps the rest of the town reliant on faith in an old man they've never seen.

The newcomers shatter that faith, and the result is a catastrophe. So it is really more of a pro-faith story than it is pro-science as I see it.

Now Captain Kirk encountered these types of society-controlling computers all over the galaxy. He'd smash them to bits and not think twice about it, and the outcomes were presumably better than this. Kirk (and Spock for that matter) were not big fans of faith.

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The prophetic Rod Serling foresaw the Covid debacle [View all] Dukkha Sep 2021 OP

An odd story, that one Shermann Sep 2021 #1

I see it as an allegory Dukkha Sep 2021 #2

"Faith" pretty well means "faith" - but "Faithless" and "Faithlessness" don't always just mean the soldierant Sep 2021 #10

I think the point is that many people will only trust faith. Kablooie Sep 2021 #3

That's how I viewed it PatSeg Sep 2021 #5

Here's his prophetic his take on the media tenderfoot Sep 2021 #4

I liked his take on capitalist greed Dukkha Sep 2021 #6

Traumatized by WWII Serling would use his excellent writing skills and TV show yaesu Sep 2021 #7

The destiny of man. RVN VET71 Sep 2021 #8

Human intelligence as an evolutionary survival strategy.... paleotn Sep 2021 #9

That episode is an adaptation of a short story. Mosby Sep 2021 #11