[Joe 6-pack]

Serling, like Gene Roddenberry, and Kurt Vonnegut leaned a little to the left in their politics, but as honorably serving veterans of WWII, I don't begrudge any of them whatever worldview they felt necessary to embrace to make sense of what they'd been through.

IMHO Serling was tremendously insightful not only in the observations he made of human behavior, but in his ability to spin them into didactic fables and allegories.

[RJR_fan]

On Thursday We Leave is an unforgettable Twilight Zone double-episode. Get it from Netflix, watch it with your kids -- and they'll understand the inner world of tyrants. Serling nailed the motivational structure of our super leaders.

[antiRepublicrat]

but in his ability to spin them into didactic fables and allegories.

Don't forget, some of the best episodes were written by (or based on stories written by) writers such as Ray Bradbury, George Johnson, Damon Knight and Jerome Bixby. Richard Matheson, a good sci-fi writer in his own, co-wrote many of the episodes with Serling.