New Year..felt like posting a few chosen Rod Serling quotes:

[Hekate]

1. Rod Serling was a wise man. As to your comment at the end...

Oppression will do it, sometimes. But even more — chaos (or the illusion of chaos created by opportunists) will cause a lot of people to cry out for “order” and seize on any strongman or despot who promises such.

Did you know lab rats can be driven crazy by creating an unstable environment where they can’t predict what comes next? They can also be driven crazy by overcrowding.

What people want more than anything in a time of chaos is stability, knowing what to expect from one day to the next. They’ll give up a lot for certainty — not everything, and not forever, but for long enough for a lot of damage to be done.

I’m a lifelong believer in freedom of thought and freedom of conscience. I had to get pretty old (I’m in my late 70s now) to start looking at my fellow Americans and other humans like this. It was during Trump’s first term, actually, when I saw not only that he was taking us off a cliff to fascism, but that there was a worldwide trend to the right and to authoritarianism. So much manipulation. So much.