The Obsolete Man

[Natural Citizen]

Live by the state, die by the state...

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

TruDat.

 

[bluzman61]

Great Twilight Zone episode, thanks for the post.

 

[White 6]

Live by the state, die by the state...

I recognized Burgess Meredith, the librarian, but who was the Republican politician ruling on the librarian?

 

[Natural Citizen]

I recognized Burgess Meredith, the librarian, but who was the Republican politician ruling on the librarian?

I think the judge was more likely one of those so-called ''moderates.''

You know how they are. Sheesh. Historically speaking, they tend to just be okay with all of the anti-liberty mandates coming from both theoretical sides of the party-of-one which serve as cogs to drive the tyrannical gears of the state.

 

[rightwinger]

Live by the state, die by the state...

My favorite Twilight Zone episode

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

some peoples ideas and reasoning are in the twilight zone

 

[Natural Citizen]

My favorite Twilight Zone episode

To Serve Man was pretty good.

In the end it was actually a cookbook.

 

[Leo123]

Great Twilight Zone episode, thanks for the post.

Didn't the actor also play the guy (Henry Bemis) who survived a nuke blast in a library in another episode (Time Enough At Last)?

 

[Auld Phart]

I recognized Burgess Meredith, the librarian, but who was the Republican politician ruling on the libran

Fritz Weaver

 

[bluzman61]

Didn't the actor also play the guy (Henry Bemis) who survived a nuke blast in a library in another episode (Time Enough At Last)?

Yes, it was the same actor. Burgess Mereidith, I believe.

 

[1srelluc]

To Serve Man was pretty good.

In the end it was actually a cookbook.

Indeed......As was A Hundred Yards Over the Rim....My favorite.

Condensed version:

 

[Leo123]

Yes, it was the same actor. Burgess Meridith, I believe.

Yep he played a bookworm that broke his glasses while being surrounded by millions of books with all the time in the world to read them.

 

[rightwinger]

Didn't the actor also play the guy (Henry Bemis) who survived a nuke blast in a library in another episode (Time Enough At Last)?

Burgess Meredith appeared in four Twilight Zones
The two you mentioned and the one where he is a weakling who space aliens give super human strength
He was also in a fourth episode where he played the Devil

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Didn't the judge in this episode also get "called in" to be questioined?
Or maybe that was a different, yet similar episode??

 

[Natural Citizen]

Didn't the judge in this episode also get "called in" to be questioined?
Or maybe that was a different, yet similar episode??

The Obsolete Man locked him in the room with him...



A television camera is installed in Wordsworth's study to broadcast his final hour live to the nation.

He summons the Chancellor, who agrees to this unusual request out of curiosity, arriving early in Wordsworth's final hour.

The librarian reveals that the execution method he chose is a bomb set to go off in the room at midnight.

The Chancellor expresses approval until Wordsworth further explains that the door is locked, and the Chancellor will die with him, providing the viewers with a more interesting death than his own.

He also points out that, as the events are being broadcast live, the State would risk losing its status in the people's eyes by rescuing the Chancellor.

Wordsworth proceeds to read from his illegal, long-hidden copy of the Bible, expressing his trust in God.

Wordsworth's calm acceptance of death stands in sharp contrast with the Chancellor's increasing panic as the bomb ticks.

At the last minute, the Chancellor breaks down and begs to be let go "in the name of God."

Wordsworth agrees to do so on those terms and immediately unlocks the door for him.

The Chancellor flees from the room while Wordsworth stays as the bomb explodes, killing him alone.

Due to his cowardly display in Wordsworth's room and invoking God, the Chancellor is replaced by his own subaltern and declared obsolete.

He protests against this and tries to escape but is overwhelmed by the tribunal's attendants, who then beat him to death.

His faith in the state is ultimately his own demise, ironically at the hands of his fellow discipleship...



Anyway. The moral of the story is that, historically speaking, those who wilfully participate in coercion generally understand very little of their role in it. And absolutely nothing at all of its consequence...well...until they're met with the consequence. And they will be. History is rife with example. They're not exempt from the product of their own doing. They just haven't thought far enough ahead, if at all, to realize it...

 

[sparky]

but who was the Republican politician ruling on the librarian?

in '23 that would be Murdock ~S~

 

[Leo123]

in '23 that would be Murdock ~S~

In the episode, reading the Bible would bring the death penalty so, he must have been a lefty.

 

[g5000]

I recognized Burgess Meredith, the librarian, but who was the Republican politician ruling on the librarian?

Burgess Meredith was in several Twilight Zone episodes, including one of my favorites, Time Enough At Last.

 

[g5000]

I recognized Burgess Meredith, the librarian, but who was the Republican politician ruling on the librarian?

The prosecutor is Fritz Weaver. A fine actor.