All episodes of The Twilight Zone boil down to "man wouldn't that be fucked up"

Archmage Azor@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 126 points –
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I think it's simpler.

They all boil down to: "See? SEE?!"

Imagine, if you will

As my best friend’s mom always likes to say

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

“It is hardest to wake those who pretend to sleep.”

The resolution of the Fermi Paradox is simple, but hard to swallow: we choose to ignore them because they terrify us deeper than we want to admit we can be terrified.

You have to take it a step further.

  1. That's would be fucked up

  2. That's kind of like this thing that actually happens.

  3. Oh shit that real thing is fucked up

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