Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man

[LibertyEagle]

Watch it here:
http://www.joost.com/09401rd/t/The-Twilight-Zone-The-Obsolete-Man#id=09401rd

It's described here on the C4L site:
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=7087

[Anti Federalist]

Post notice: spoiler Serling end comments at end of post.

One of my favorites.

Makes me think that the plot for Logan's Run was pinched form this episode.

Some of my other favs: In Praise of Pip - Time Enough at Last - Nightmare at 20,000 feet.

The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete, but so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under "M" for mankind—in the Twilight Zone.

[ghemminger]

Love this vid - actually re-watching many of the old tv show on the net

[Philmanoman]

http://www.joost.com/09401rd/t/The-Twilight-Zone-The-Obsolete-Man#id=09401rd

Hope you enjoy :)

[nate895]

I got the complete collection from my grandma on Christmas, and this is one of my favorite episodes.

[libertea]

One of my all time favorite episodes.

[Danke]

You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future; not a future that will be, but one that might be. This is not a new world: It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace. This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State, but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths in the Twilight Zone.

Short clip:

YouTube - Obsolete (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQCJtfENAc&NR=1)

[James ODonnell]

You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future; not a future that will be, but one that might be. This is not a new world: It is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: Logic is an enemy, and truth is a menace. This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State, but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths in the Twilight Zone.

Short clip:

YouTube - Obsolete (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQCJtfENAc&NR=1)

Yes one of my favorites also. There is a wealth of great anti-state shows, most written by Rod Serling. Here is the full show [all can be found here]:

http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php?cid=649555532&pid=cECrkUfCpb3irhnV_KadYQA_dXB6IIKo&play=true

[Bodhi]

I just watched this episode, it is one of my favorites! :D

[Dr.3D]

That is one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes.

Another is this one.
It was a film we were required to see when I was in junior high school.

YouTube - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1/3) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jLxlyTrAC4&feature=PlayList&p=9A22ACBDFC22CCA9&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=10)

[Mandrik]

My all time favorite "old" show. I'm 29 now, but got hooked on this show the first time I saw it when I was 10 or 11. I was amazed at how good it was without all the modern effects or even color.

[BuddyRey]

Right on!!! I've always loved this episode of the Twilight Zone, and Rod Serling was my first major introduction to individualist/anti-authoritarian philosophy...even though it was cleverly disguised as straight-up sci-fi fun.

If Serling wasn't a full-on libertarian (and, by most accounts, he was considered a liberal), he sure had the basic gist of it! "The Obsolete Man" almost rivals Ayn Rand's best novels in the glorification of the lone individual's freedom of conscience against the leviathan authoritarian state.