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Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature, prejudice, and alienation. He used aliens and machines to understand human nature. While the themes in The Twilight Zone often reflected political concerns of the time, like the Cold War and post-industrial technology, the messages had broader political implications. This book looks at Serling's mechanistic view of the world and emphasis on fear through Hobbesian themes like diffidence and automata.
Contents
1 Acknowledgments 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1 Human Nature 4 The state of nature-Hobbesian roots 5 Fear 6 Greed 7 Glory 8 Competition and Belligerence 9 State of Nature- Rousseau 10 To Serve Man Chapter 11 2 The Individual and the State 12 Conformity 13 Capital punishment 14 Justice and the law 15 War 16 Does size matter Chapter 17 3 Fascism and Modernity 18 Automata- I Sing the Body Electric 19 The Bandshell and the swimming pool 20 Fascism and Dictatorship 21 The Cold War 22 Prejudice 23 Nuclear war 24 Alienation Chapter 25 4 Magic and Optimism 26 Magic 27 The Allegory of the cave 28 Conclusion
