"I think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself." Rod Serling, LA Times, 1967
@AnneSerling I always wonder about the things that shaped me in childhood, the tenderness and sensitivity of Walt Disney and the moral warnings about our capacity for self deception in Rod Serling.
A close friend of mine did a great study on your father during our college days many years ago (I'm 65). I always found Rod Serling's stoic philosophical viewpoints fascinating, some of them outright prophetic. I had the pleasure of encountering your uncle Robert years ago (early 2000s) in Arizona, before his passing took place. A great writer/author himself. He was quite an U.S. aviation history expert, I was just getting into a deep study about Earhart with a WWII veterans research chapter when an article about him ran in a Tucson newspaper when I was working on a film there,, so I sought him out. Great guy. (This United Press article clip Robert Serling wrote appeared in August of 1945, right after VJ Day.)
@AnneSerling That bracelet Serling is shown wearing tells me he was a combat veteran. Those combat experiences are reflected in everything he wrote and how he suffered his return to civilian life.
@AnneSerling I adored the Twilight Zone. Unequivocally. But, I could always tell when Rod Serling wrote the episode. It would always be too one dimensional. Real life is full of gray areas.
@AnneSerling Watched the Twilight Zone yesterday. Twitter is the modern day Twilight Zone. 😂
@AnneSerling It’s easier to teach Pigs hygiene, Elephants aerobics, Birds jogging lessons, And snakes posture Than make certain racists Realize they only know A rivulet’s worth of people, And that’s what invalidates Their ocean-wide evaluations Of all humanity. tinylink.net/Ucbtc