To the Editor:
There was an early sci-fi TV show called Twilight Zone. I remember it well. Who would have thought that such a production could have foreseen the world that we live in 2017? But it did in one episode that I, inexplicably, remember.
The story line was about aliens invading the earth, intent on assuming control. It is the very end of the show that had a line that burned into my memory. The aliens were standing on a hill looking down on a typical American neighborhood. What they saw was neighbors, maybe one-time friends, in the street yelling at each other, calling each other hateful, insulting, despicable names and actually hurling rocks and other devices intended to do harm. One of the aliens, watching these events playing out before them, commented to the other, “We don’t have to do anything to the inhabitants of this planet: they will destroy themselves.” And now we have 2017, where this vision has come to fruition.
Anne Harper
Village of Buttonwood
