‘The Hunt’-Twilight Zone

   Man is a storyteller. From the days of the primordial ancestor, gesticulating and using simple words to tell a story in the flickering firelight, to the modern television and computer… and to be carried on to the technologies of the future… we tell stories and pass along information.  

   Experience is said to be a harsh mistress, but if a lesson can be learned through an enjoyable medium and expressed with skill, lessons of values and  morality can be passed on.

   Values and morality are the expression of the society… and this can be steered by the lessons given in storytelling.  A subtle hand can steer and guide a people by means of the storytelling medium.

   There was a time that morality was carried to what seems now an absurd degree.  The case of single-beds for instance comes to mind.  But regardless of some issues which may fling wide the standards of acceptable behavior, other issues usually stay within bounds. Issues such as trust within family, love of humanity in general, ‘The Golden Rule’, and sticking to your word generally do not move much regardless of the times or culture.

   One of the pleasures of the holidays is the usual marathon of ‘The Twilight Zone’. The simple half-hour stories told in that fifty year-old-gone series tend to stress morality issues that we would recognize even today with what we may perceive as the general lowering of standards of acceptance.  And we would expect those same standards will be widely followed in ensuing millenia, with only brief periods falling into the decay we as a species seem to fall into on occasion.

   To watch a well-done show, that brings a tear.. and a longing for good… this is good.

   And something we could use more of.

   A line from the episode titled ‘The Hunt’…..

“A man, well, he’ll walk right into Hell with both eyes open… but even the Devil can’t fool a dog!”