The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Yup, that's the one that stayed with me for years as a genuine life lesson. It is true, too - people quickly and easily fly into paranoid fits, they isolate and blame "the other" among even themselves. Anyone who's lived in a small town has seen the same dynamics play out.

“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices ... to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own ... for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined only to The Twilight Zone.

And that is where we are. We are going after each other down here in the street while the aliens ( billionaires ) are up on the hill watching us conquering us one neighborhood at a time.

I almost forgot about that one, yes. That one was definitely creepier.

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street episode is a great societal commentary (similarly to The Shelter) and it's stayed with me since I watched it. Honestly, it feels even scarier in today's world.