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The Twilight Zone
J.D. Pendry
There is a fifth
dimension beyond that which is known to man.
It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow,
between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of a man's fears
and the summit of his knowledge. This is
the dimension of imagination. It is an
area we call the Twilight Zone.
–From Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone
Imagine
if you will, that a powerful society exists on earth. Only a couple of hundred years old yet more
powerful and influential than societies many thousands of years its
senior. It’s not a society of a single
race, ethnic group or religion, but one comprised of immigrants from failing or
failed societies all seeking something better than they left. Most of them are here for the opportunity the
society offers. Others seek its destruction
or to change it into a version of the society they fled. It’s a society built on a strong foundation
of values, a tough work ethic, and a sense of opportunity and freedom rarely
matched. During its comparatively short
history, it’s repeatedly confronted evil while defending others. It’s fed the world and led the world. It now stands as the world’s lone, most
powerful leader and is locked in an epic struggle, with forces from within and
without, for its continued existence.
Imagine
then that this republic, which by its laws is governed by a majority of freely
elected representatives of the people, is not able to govern effectively
because the minority constantly obstructs the will of the majority– resulting
in chaos. It’s an internal struggle for
power and ideology that draws the republic’s attention away from its dangerous
and epic battle with outside forces.
Imagine
then that this republic has an expensive military force designed and equipped
to face an enemy that no longer exists.
When a redesign plan,
which will make it a more effective force, requires base closures, we discover
that the military is more important to serve as a jobs program than it is to
defend the nation.
Imagine
then that this republic has giant media organizations, which inform the society
through manipulative polling how most of their fellow citizens think. Therefore implying, that if you’re normal and
average, how you should think. It’s a
form of a method used by other societies – that are no longer with us.
Imagine
then that this republic, concerned as it should be with world hunger, provides
more food
aid to poor nations around the world than most nations of the world
combined and the countries we feed are those who most oppose us.
Imagine
then that this republic is engaged in an internal struggle to define or
redefine what’s moral. In this struggle,
children get
condoms at elementary school while being banned
from reading Bibles during their recess period. Children are the future of any society or
they can be the demise of it.
Imagine
then that in this republic, we teach schoolchildren safe sex complete with
condoms on cucumbers demonstrations before teaching them about abstinence.
Imagine
then that in this republic governed by the people, one they did not elect can
render void their collective will and desire.
Imagine
then that in this republic another not elected decides a 13-year-old
girl can make a choice made legal by men and carried out 50 million times since
1973. Some in the republic insist that’s
a free choice, others call it murder.
The internal struggle continues.
Imagine
then that in this republic sexual predators are dangerous enough that their
whereabouts must be known at all times, but not dangerous enough for
incarceration – until they strike again - and again.
Imagine
then that in this republic, a psychotic killer who’d in the past chased
neighbors with a chain saw roams free until he brutally murders
two innocent little girls.
Imagine then that in this republic, we starved to death a disabled woman. Only to see a short time later that after years
and years others recover from
similar disabilities.
While
Congress debates its nuclear option, the country fiddles, and the Ayatollahs
and Kim Jung Mentally IL build real nukes, I thought I’d recap the week’s
cheerful news for you. I think I’m going
to go into the backyard now and start digging my bunker. Welcome to our world,…it lies between the pit of a man's fears and the summit of his
knowledge… It is an area we call the Twilight Zone.
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J.D. Pendry is author of The Three Meter Zone, Random House/Ballantine.
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