How cold you say that they aren't "loving" parents? You don't know what situation they are in or how you would react! Given that people always say, "I would do this or that in a situation," from my life experience, I learned that you do not know until you are there.
They got one thing wrong, they will not kill smart people. they will kill people who rebels and is smart. Smart but easily mislead would be in charge under a false idea.
These are loving parents. They have not given their lives to the state with any intent. This is a dystopia, they do not have any choice. It is merely a projection of cold-war USA, a dystopic state has arisen where the Government controls intelligence levels to maintain its control. This is a 1954 text, an extrapolation from then. Don't get stupidly worked up about this now, it is not and has not happened.
Although it appears Americans are getting dumber...
Thats where we are headed LOL....( Notice the Large Pyramid ) overlooking the city???... You can see its shadow at night when they showed the lighting storm over the city.
that was so creepy, and i would never let my 2 get killed for any reason. F THE GOVERNMENT, i dont vote and i follow God, not people. also, i gave up TV.
Neo-Liberal Social Vandalism and Cultural Terrorism and Abject Moral Cowardice by the Global Corporate State and its Supporting Apparatchik Progressive Anti-Racist Intelligensia .
The elites are so wicked and morally emaculated by the 50 year old Left wing ideological tyranny of " anti-racism " that when Muslims in the UK began to practice widespread gang rape and grooming of under age young white girls , the police and the social services covered it up .
"The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest." -- Bernays, The Engineering of Consent
Bernays:Father: (Freud's wife's brother)
Mother: (Freud's sister)
Mind control !
see also
--Ed. Bernays, Crystallizing Public Opinion
search T A V I S T O C K Institute agenda, Rockefeller/Rothschild financed.
Saw this earlier today and my jaw dropped at the end when it's revealed they kill kids for being too smart. I was initially disgusted with Dicky's parents for not at least warning the kid, but then again that probably wouldn't have done any good. At least he spent his last few moments ignorant and happy.
i was the same as this kid when this came out,same age,too. i was also a prodigy.with an i.q.off the scale for my age group,i thought and still think this or something like this could happen to me to this day!!i therefore purposely screwed up,and dropped out by 15.whether its outcompeting your peers,or being a threat to national security,bad things happen when youre to far ahead of everyone else. you sound crazy to everyone,at the very least!
I simply don't get it.The government killed him just because of being smart?What's the sense??If you're intelligent you're an enemy of the state or what?As if you wanted to become ruler of the world!...Hell,aren't they pretty overdoing?I mean,yeah,very smart people have a much harder way through life,I'm experiencing it myself, but it's not like they're seen as potentially danger!..This story upsets me,I can't see what the author wants to tell me. Take care of the government?Or don't be smart?
@LeoJoePuschel Tyrants always kill the intelligent ones first. Why? Because the smart ones can figure out the lies and propaganda and try to warn the rest.
Mao in China is one of the best examples. If you had glasses they murdered you. Glasses were a sign of intelligence and literacy.
@LeoJoePuschel Basically trying to portray a government that wants all of their members to be smarter than the common folk. That way, people (smart people) wont begin questioning the governments decisions and such, thus preventing revolts, rebellions, etc.
There is a book just out now called Swipe--when a kid comes of age in the futuristic world he has to take a test and get a mark. Kids who don't pass "disappear". I am realizing it is very very similar to this Twilight Zone episode.
This is a quaint little episode but in all reality would never happen. There is no way you can get between a mother and a son to this degree on this large of a scale.
@mlmr11 Nope would never happen on Earth ever! Well, er um I mean at least not until Pharaoh , King Herod, Chairman Mao, Hitler, and those others were born. But other than that forget it! NEVER Ever...because mimr even says so!
@mlmr11 Are you serious? Poor delusional and naive soul. Probably the same stupid thing Germans were saying when Jewish people were being gassed and thrown into mass graves. It could never happen? Wake up for real.
@kecola I think you guys are misinterpreting what I'm saying . Yes I get that despotism and tyranny are the norm . I 'm well aware of Nazi Germany and Soviet Union etc. What I'm saying is that this sort of tyranny is not likely to sustain itself because nothing is stronger than the bond of a mother and child. In the USA you can already see people waking up to the scientific dictatorship and refusing vaccination etc. I know this "stuff" happens I'm not as stupid as I look
@mlmr11 Ah, I see. My apologies. I did take what you originally said the wrong wrong. Sorry bout that. I feel like the government is well on it's way in trying to find better means in which to control the population. I, too, feel as though people will uprise and rebel is this kind of crap is implemented. Hate to say it but the majority might continue to be sheeple :( Too many people still have the wool pulled over their eyes.
@kecola You're right the majority will continue to be sheeple it's been that way through history. By being sheeple they're not involved in the fight. So then it becomes a numbers game of us against them minus the sheeple. If only 5% of the 99%ers get pissed that puts the odds at 5-1. No amount of firepower can overpower those odds. Especially if you take in to consideration the 5 are fighting for their survival with nothing to lose. The 1% ers are and always will be thieving cowards
Too familiar, except in my country, the smart ones are made to become part of the government. Or if you're super smart, they groom you to marry into their elite circle.
though this is a older show, this needs to be aired frequently..... or remade for todays programing.....but i doubt this ''goverment'' would let that happen.. :-/
we are magnificent beings all of us!!!.....all we need ..is love....love from the heart....this episode shows us ......what could happen....but if your love is from your heart.....this twilight episode will be entertaining showing us whnat could happen being ignorant and submersive!!!
the government already does aptitude and attitude tests....so they already know who you will most likely turn out to be...they get to see who is smart and who is gutsy and who is both and then play their socialization "civilization" training on you to retrain you to comply....i didnt need to be wakened....i was born awake to it...
The little boy said it best "I'd rather read there's nothing good on tv" The Government and the nwo (i.e 1% of the populations who control the world) want you docile and compliant. WAKE UP!
just take your vaccines, eat your chemical laden food, watch your hypnotic, flickering brainwashing device, and above all, VOTE FOR WHO YOU ARE TOLD TO VOTE FOR!
If i ever have to take this test l will pretend to drink the liquid but keep it in my mouth. When the man looks away, i will spit the drink into my shirt. Actually, i have an IEP so i wont pass this test
The boy was killed for being too smart. The Government wants the people to be stupid so that they will be easier to control since they'll be too dumb to think and question their Government. The point of the episode is that the Government silences anyone who questions them as they are power-hungry.
High intelligence is about the only thing we have going for us as a species when compared to other animals. Take away the intelligence and what do you have left?
This is one of the few episodes from the '80s Twilight Zone that is so brilliant it can stand comfortably alongside the stories written by Rod Serling himself. And its blistering commentary on authoritarian states' pervasive fear of a learned underclass isn't nearly as far-fetched as it would seem. The Khmer Rouge, for example, would execute people for no greater crime than wearing eyeglasses, because glasses were the mark of somebody who could read.
It's funny how different people's reactions can be. I mean when I went through Army induction (back in the Vietnam era) and informed my foster mother (after she asked) that I'd put her down as the insurance beneficiary (20-Gs) her big, fat ass-end floated 10 feet off the floor as she asked me 3 times to repeat myself, as she was all giddy about possibly pocketing such easy money if I returned "home" in a bag.
I wonder if "Dicky's" mom would have taken it better if they'd given her a fur coat?
@guyNbluejeans Graham, I think YOU exceed the government standard (judging from your profile). Be very careful around government employees. Tell them nothing. It's the only way to be safe.
@nemo227 Thanks! A day or so after I wrote this cry-baby post I thought that I should locate it and remove it. But seeing that it's gotten two thumbs up I'll let it stand. I also thought that this little vid and its message might be better if the government were to rid society of all the imbeciles (instead of the bright ones); but that smacks too much of nazism, I suppose.
Glad you liked my obnoxious bio! Again, Thanks and Take Care!
I just don't get the story... Can someone please summarize the story? Why did the boy die? What is wrong with exceeding the intellgence on the government examination?
@58rodros I fully agree. Which is why, this twilight zone episode freak me out and bothers me so much. for it's not just idea of the Government too much power. But , the idea of parents being so docile. That they aren't even willing to stand up, when their child is in danger.In the end, this nothing more then a cautionary tale of what happens. if we rely on the Government to make all our decision for us.
@TiffanyLoveIU because they dont want smart people alive, the want the dummies, so that way they can control you easier, its easy to control a stupid person
interesting.the gov will kill anyone for being tooo intelligent.hints they don't like people who can think outside the box/for themselves.sad but true
Not just smart. Smart and not qualified to have the intelligence. The examiner isn't dumb. The politicians who came up with the law and of course have their own genetic banks also would qualify to be intelligent.
@Ray13star The young person was put to death because he had a high intelligence but his parents were of lower intelligence. Both parents had failed the test earlier in their lives. The highest threat to an aristocracy is for a highly intelligent individual or group of individuals to be born and raised in a lower class. The highly intelligent individual or group have the ability of enlightenment. This would raise the intelligence of the less intelligent and a threat to the aristocracy.
People don't need to be too smart. I'm glad my school didn't let this one kid try to jump grades and I'm glad the college he wanted to attend required he have a high school diploma. Some people think they can finish school early and finish college early. They should be put down like this kid was! At least our government doesn't let them in to college until they are old enough
@Yeppr wow. i surprised that you can even figure how to use a computer...you intellegence is so threateningly small..wow..you really shouldnt open your mouth
@Yeppr So you think just because someone is intelligent they should be put to death! what the fuck is wrong with you, you ignorant bastard! People can't help it if they're naturally gifted. i hope to god that your just a troll, but if your not your a sick fuck.
@Yeppr I'm being sarcastic...Look at our current system and see why homeschooling has grown so much in the past 20 years. All they do is hold kids back. Rules Rules Rules Rules..that's all school is now..they could care less if the kids learn anything beneficial..all they care about is if they are respectful and on time
@Yeppr Wrong, they care if you pass a test, then who cares what you do after. Just because i got a slightly bad grade on a single test shouldn't mean i'm a dumb person. There's a lot of factors that go into tests, maybey person was sick, maybe a family member died, maybe they didn't study, maybe they're not good at memorizing etc etc
Sadly, this sort of thing has already happened in the real world. In dictatorships like those of Stalin and Mao, key targets for elimination or "reconditioning" were intellectuals - people smart enough to question the established order. Shows how narrow-minded, paranoid and hateful power can make you.
because stupid people are malable (google it) if you watch reality t.v guess what, your stupid, and most the country does. If your a grown adult and you get all your information from a biased news channel, instead of thousands of years of literature, philosophy, and history, then you are indeed an imbicile by no fault but bad parenting and habits.
@Domonkoss I love that you're presumptuous enough to declare "google it" after what you apparently assume to be an obscure word, but you have numerous misspellings and misuse of words.
@Domonkoss And don't you mean "you're"? Watch reality television shows much? And by the way, you can use the little key marked SHIFT to make a little letter into a big letter for beginning a sentence, in case you didn't know. It is called a capital. (Google that.)
Last I checked every liberal I ever talked to was 100% for putting more money into education, where as conservatives were too busy thinking up the next place to bomb, or how to funnel more money to wallmart and other republican funded corporate juggernaughts. Yes if you let the gays marry, we will enter into an orwellian hellish future, lol republicans are getting absurdly desperate.
@Domonkoss - Yes lets put more money into the goverment school system so that every child is raised by the teachings of the federal government because the federal government can raise your child so much better than parents can.
there are 4 things that stand out,1.the Gov building in start of show is a pyramid 2..they all wear a same style shirt..rep a communist style/nwo/one world..3 the cake is blue..rep blue lodges freemason and their shirts too...4 the boy is 13...rep the 13 bloodlines of the order...and the fact Gov is controlling all aspects of human life..to kill anyone who is to smart to figure out the are fucked/walking talking slaves...
I wouldn't say that these parents weren't loving. They've just been cowed by the state. This is what happens when the population refuse to stand up and tell the millitary/industrial complex "No".
@HPGWellscraft in 1984 by orwell, at least i think it was in that book, one of the parents had a chip in his brain that dumbed them down, which makes more sense since for a child to have a high IQ it would most likely have to be inherited. Still, I don't think that stupidity is the issue. I think that a sense of purpose is more important in the real word than how fast you can number crunch.
@redarrowhead2 as it happens 1984 is the next book i plan on reading so i shall see if this is indeed the story with the brain implant. But i believe you are right, wasn't it Winston Churchill that said "Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential."?
@HPGWellscraft That isn't in "1984." Instead, it's in a Kurt Vonnegut novel, in which the citizens have to wear devices that negate whatever gift the person has in order to make everyone "equal," on a level playing field. Instead, "1984" is simply about a post-atomic world in which the government controls and spies on everyone, and where all the citizens turn each other in for imagined crimes. And there are constant wars on in all corners of the globe. Sort of like the Bush years...
@MartianStories That equalizing concept sounds alot like a trailer for a movie i just saw. i forget the name but athletic ppl had to wear weights and smart ppl had to wear earmuffs or something. It looked pretty crazy.
@HPGWellscraft Yeah, that sounds like the movie version, which was pretty good. I don't remember the name of the movie, but it was the main character's name. The book had a different title. Which I also don't remember. Vonnegut books run all together in my head...
@HPGWellscraft Found the title. The film was called "Harrison Bergeron." Which was pretty good. I'm not sure, but I think the Vonnegut novel was called "2081" or "Harrison Bergeron, 2081."
I actually saw Vonnegut speak when I was in college, a speech on diagramming the plot of The Great American Story. He went on for hours, drunk off his ass, diagramming several of his stories on a whiteboard. Then, he said: "It's bullshit. You CAN'T diagram a great story. They just come out or don't."
@MartianStories yup, thats the one (2081). Which is weird cuz it's fair, but then we find out that fair isn't good, or right. But this Vonnegut guy sounds like a character. LoLz imma have to look him up. :D
@HPGWellscraft Yeah, he's truly a great writer. Very fun read, but on the weird side for sure. Scifi-art. I recommend "Slapstick" for a first-read. That's my fave. Although it's hard to go wrong with Vonnegut. Probably his most famous book is "Slaughterhouse Five."
How cold you say that they aren't "loving" parents? You don't know what situation they are in or how you would react! Given that people always say, "I would do this or that in a situation," from my life experience, I learned that you do not know until you are there.
HappyHooker83 3 days ago
They got one thing wrong, they will not kill smart people. they will kill people who rebels and is smart. Smart but easily mislead would be in charge under a false idea.
TheWatchthesky 5 days ago
Why discotheques only 10 min long?
ThaJUMPER83 5 days ago
Dang
HamLovesBacon 5 days ago
What a beautiful little boy...
Oliveindigo 6 days ago
I remember our teacher reading us this when I was about 13, now i do politics and love the sci fi political stuff!
thevideovan 1 week ago 2
*correcting myself, first published 1958 - unsure of when written..
jesserowlingsify 1 week ago
@newtimesscarytimes
@BlackZer00
These are loving parents. They have not given their lives to the state with any intent. This is a dystopia, they do not have any choice. It is merely a projection of cold-war USA, a dystopic state has arisen where the Government controls intelligence levels to maintain its control. This is a 1954 text, an extrapolation from then. Don't get stupidly worked up about this now, it is not and has not happened.
Although it appears Americans are getting dumber...
jesserowlingsify 1 week ago
hey, i read this story in and R.L. Stine book?
1928WaltDisney 1 week ago
Each time they say "government" or "State" in this video just substitute the word "corporation" and you have a good idea of where we are today.
NeoOprichnik 1 week ago
funny thing...the kid's supposed to be really smart, but he downs the liquid without question in a jiffy.
zackhanscom 1 week ago
interesting fable. would have preferred a more realistic, down to earth representation of dystopia.
would parents really be ok with this kind of state control? unlikely.
zackhanscom 1 week ago
Thats where we are headed LOL....( Notice the Large Pyramid ) overlooking the city???... You can see its shadow at night when they showed the lighting storm over the city.
jasonvaughn777 2 weeks ago
Woah, that was fucked up! Who knew being too smart was such a bad thing?
FREAKFANATIC 2 weeks ago
that was so creepy, and i would never let my 2 get killed for any reason. F THE GOVERNMENT, i dont vote and i follow God, not people. also, i gave up TV.
srfrider73 2 weeks ago
Neo-Liberal Social Vandalism and Cultural Terrorism and Abject Moral Cowardice by the Global Corporate State and its Supporting Apparatchik Progressive Anti-Racist Intelligensia .
The elites are so wicked and morally emaculated by the 50 year old Left wing ideological tyranny of " anti-racism " that when Muslims in the UK began to practice widespread gang rape and grooming of under age young white girls , the police and the social services covered it up .
Trolintrolintrolin5 2 weeks ago
NO SUCH THING
hannahluvcimorelli 3 weeks ago
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"The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest." -- Bernays, The Engineering of Consent
Bernays:Father: (Freud's wife's brother)
Mother: (Freud's sister)
Mind control !
see also
--Ed. Bernays, Crystallizing Public Opinion
search T A V I S T O C K Institute agenda, Rockefeller/Rothschild financed.
sophiah88 3 weeks ago
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
/watch?v=eZJoCfgAEuE
sophiah88 3 weeks ago
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dacc990 3 weeks ago
Couldn't they have the kid work for the government? Sure, it might suck, but still, that's an idea.
xiraho1 3 weeks ago
Anybody here subscribe to NAUResistance? He has a great channel.
TonoFonseca 3 weeks ago
Saw this earlier today and my jaw dropped at the end when it's revealed they kill kids for being too smart. I was initially disgusted with Dicky's parents for not at least warning the kid, but then again that probably wouldn't have done any good. At least he spent his last few moments ignorant and happy.
CasyleDeagwa 1 month ago
FUCK, I'M NEVER STUDYING FOR FINALS AGAIN.
ThatPurplyThing 1 month ago 10
I don't care if the newer ones are in color, i like the 1960's twilight zone better. >:/
WhentheworldendsWWYD 1 month ago
i was the same as this kid when this came out,same age,too. i was also a prodigy.with an i.q.off the scale for my age group,i thought and still think this or something like this could happen to me to this day!!i therefore purposely screwed up,and dropped out by 15.whether its outcompeting your peers,or being a threat to national security,bad things happen when youre to far ahead of everyone else. you sound crazy to everyone,at the very least!
irishbreakfast 1 month ago
@irishbreakfast bullshit.
hyunki0510 1 month ago
That city looks like the one from Zeitgist. Too scary.
learn54 1 month ago
I simply don't get it.The government killed him just because of being smart?What's the sense??If you're intelligent you're an enemy of the state or what?As if you wanted to become ruler of the world!...Hell,aren't they pretty overdoing?I mean,yeah,very smart people have a much harder way through life,I'm experiencing it myself, but it's not like they're seen as potentially danger!..This story upsets me,I can't see what the author wants to tell me. Take care of the government?Or don't be smart?
LeoJoePuschel 1 month ago
@LeoJoePuschel Tyrants always kill the intelligent ones first. Why? Because the smart ones can figure out the lies and propaganda and try to warn the rest.
Mao in China is one of the best examples. If you had glasses they murdered you. Glasses were a sign of intelligence and literacy.
learn54 1 month ago
@LeoJoePuschel Basically trying to portray a government that wants all of their members to be smarter than the common folk. That way, people (smart people) wont begin questioning the governments decisions and such, thus preventing revolts, rebellions, etc.
ClutchLikeMeIo 1 month ago
its about time
sl2rostock 1 month ago
This episode is doubtlessly one of the scariest....
Trekkie1237 1 month ago
This is the only episode of the Twilight Zone that made me cry at the end.
I HATE THIS EPISODE!!! IT IS SO FREAKY!!
TheBeatlesGurl101 1 month ago
There is a book just out now called Swipe--when a kid comes of age in the futuristic world he has to take a test and get a mark. Kids who don't pass "disappear". I am realizing it is very very similar to this Twilight Zone episode.
beijingteacher 1 month ago
@YOMAMA63336 you mean demoCRAPS
rebekahjcksn 1 month ago
This is a quaint little episode but in all reality would never happen. There is no way you can get between a mother and a son to this degree on this large of a scale.
mlmr11 1 month ago
@mlmr11 Nope would never happen on Earth ever! Well, er um I mean at least not until Pharaoh , King Herod, Chairman Mao, Hitler, and those others were born. But other than that forget it! NEVER Ever...because mimr even says so!
saltcitystud 1 month ago
@saltcitystud What the hell is the matter with you ?
mlmr11 1 month ago
@mlmr11 Are you serious? Poor delusional and naive soul. Probably the same stupid thing Germans were saying when Jewish people were being gassed and thrown into mass graves. It could never happen? Wake up for real.
kecola 1 month ago
@kecola I think you guys are misinterpreting what I'm saying . Yes I get that despotism and tyranny are the norm . I 'm well aware of Nazi Germany and Soviet Union etc. What I'm saying is that this sort of tyranny is not likely to sustain itself because nothing is stronger than the bond of a mother and child. In the USA you can already see people waking up to the scientific dictatorship and refusing vaccination etc. I know this "stuff" happens I'm not as stupid as I look
mlmr11 1 month ago
@mlmr11 Ah, I see. My apologies. I did take what you originally said the wrong wrong. Sorry bout that. I feel like the government is well on it's way in trying to find better means in which to control the population. I, too, feel as though people will uprise and rebel is this kind of crap is implemented. Hate to say it but the majority might continue to be sheeple :( Too many people still have the wool pulled over their eyes.
kecola 1 month ago
@kecola You're right the majority will continue to be sheeple it's been that way through history. By being sheeple they're not involved in the fight. So then it becomes a numbers game of us against them minus the sheeple. If only 5% of the 99%ers get pissed that puts the odds at 5-1. No amount of firepower can overpower those odds. Especially if you take in to consideration the 5 are fighting for their survival with nothing to lose. The 1% ers are and always will be thieving cowards
mlmr11 1 month ago
Too familiar, except in my country, the smart ones are made to become part of the government. Or if you're super smart, they groom you to marry into their elite circle.
darkoriole 2 months ago
though this is a older show, this needs to be aired frequently..... or remade for todays programing.....but i doubt this ''goverment'' would let that happen.. :-/
emtdaniel4jesus 2 months ago
Thts sad....damn
ragers12 2 months ago
ok so... what happened to the boy?
babybff12 2 months ago
@babybff12 they killed him for being too smart
shenron14 2 months ago
we are magnificent beings all of us!!!.....all we need ..is love....love from the heart....this episode shows us ......what could happen....but if your love is from your heart.....this twilight episode will be entertaining showing us whnat could happen being ignorant and submersive!!!
pirreli5 2 months ago
the government already does aptitude and attitude tests....so they already know who you will most likely turn out to be...they get to see who is smart and who is gutsy and who is both and then play their socialization "civilization" training on you to retrain you to comply....i didnt need to be wakened....i was born awake to it...
75rmc75 2 months ago
"You're almost a man!"
Really? He's 12, he's nothing but a child.
ManelinhoAraujinho 2 months ago
The little boy said it best "I'd rather read there's nothing good on tv" The Government and the nwo (i.e 1% of the populations who control the world) want you docile and compliant. WAKE UP!
MRSLUVMYMAC 2 months ago
didnt get it
JUST1SELL1IT7 2 months ago
@JUST1SELL1IT7 then you're probably safe if this scenario plays out in reality...which btw is very possible the way things seem to be headed...
75rmc75 2 months ago
@75rmc75 thanks =)
JUST1SELL1IT7 2 months ago
@JUST1SELL1IT7 well! than you pass the test! Good for you, bad for us!
saltcitystud 1 month ago
shits creepy.
mandazdahomie 2 months ago in playlist More videos from newtimesscarytimes
is she pregnant??
Xipolatico 2 months ago
just take your vaccines, eat your chemical laden food, watch your hypnotic, flickering brainwashing device, and above all, VOTE FOR WHO YOU ARE TOLD TO VOTE FOR!
stopthesoftkill 2 months ago 3
man that little boy look like an old person
9437810 3 months ago
I remember watching this episode I liked it cause he's and only child so was I love twilight zone thanks for uploading
ndndrunk 3 months ago
This is what the Democrats want to do to white people.
YoMama63366 3 months ago
@YoMama63366
Don't worry; you'd be safe
p3rs0nan0ngrata 1 month ago
lol dickie haha
SuperSepehr34 3 months ago
if ur stupid its easier to control because people dont ask questions.
SuperSepehr34 3 months ago
If i ever have to take this test l will pretend to drink the liquid but keep it in my mouth. When the man looks away, i will spit the drink into my shirt. Actually, i have an IEP so i wont pass this test
EDAW8 3 months ago
Tone, compare this episode with Harrison Beregon, it's a jumping start to get ideas.
anthonytd103 3 months ago
Anthony, did you watch the video closely, he was killed for being too smart.
anthonytd103 3 months ago
so whats the point of this episode? I need help cause im going to write a paper thanks!
TonneGama 3 months ago
@TonneGama
The boy was killed for being too smart. The Government wants the people to be stupid so that they will be easier to control since they'll be too dumb to think and question their Government. The point of the episode is that the Government silences anyone who questions them as they are power-hungry.
oddworlddude 3 months ago
what happens if your super dumb!
ANTHONYT2A 3 months ago
Pause at 1:53 perver
Ragindragon541 3 months ago
High intelligence is about the only thing we have going for us as a species when compared to other animals. Take away the intelligence and what do you have left?
kevinwafer 3 months ago
This is one of the few episodes from the '80s Twilight Zone that is so brilliant it can stand comfortably alongside the stories written by Rod Serling himself. And its blistering commentary on authoritarian states' pervasive fear of a learned underclass isn't nearly as far-fetched as it would seem. The Khmer Rouge, for example, would execute people for no greater crime than wearing eyeglasses, because glasses were the mark of somebody who could read.
RationalDischarge 3 months ago
the ending pissed me off!! actually it made me sad...
Sweetheartbabez 3 months ago
@Sound88Check could be? what could be about it
stopthesoftkill 4 months ago
It's funny how different people's reactions can be. I mean when I went through Army induction (back in the Vietnam era) and informed my foster mother (after she asked) that I'd put her down as the insurance beneficiary (20-Gs) her big, fat ass-end floated 10 feet off the floor as she asked me 3 times to repeat myself, as she was all giddy about possibly pocketing such easy money if I returned "home" in a bag.
I wonder if "Dicky's" mom would have taken it better if they'd given her a fur coat?
guyNbluejeans 4 months ago 3
@guyNbluejeans Graham, I think YOU exceed the government standard (judging from your profile). Be very careful around government employees. Tell them nothing. It's the only way to be safe.
Oh, your're a damn good fiction writer too.
nemo227 3 months ago
@nemo227 Thanks! A day or so after I wrote this cry-baby post I thought that I should locate it and remove it. But seeing that it's gotten two thumbs up I'll let it stand. I also thought that this little vid and its message might be better if the government were to rid society of all the imbeciles (instead of the bright ones); but that smacks too much of nazism, I suppose.
Glad you liked my obnoxious bio! Again, Thanks and Take Care!
guyNbluejeans 3 months ago
I couldn't stop laughing at the end.
waynebollman 4 months ago
LOL!! That's fucked up.
waynebollman 4 months ago
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New World Order?
talaivaneizer 4 months ago
@TheIsaac2k10 aka couple bottles of whisky lol
cthulhuforpres117 4 months ago
I can't believe how many views this has! More than any other Twilight Zone. Way more.
MissyHolland 4 months ago
What a fucked up world!!
thebugsbunnygirl 5 months ago
the kid from Over the Top
CoalRegionRiders 5 months ago
Lamentablemente la palabra twilight ahora se asocia a "vampiros" manfinfleros...
LuisPincheira 5 months ago
I just don't get the story... Can someone please summarize the story? Why did the boy die? What is wrong with exceeding the intellgence on the government examination?
TiffanyLoveIU 5 months ago
@TiffanyLoveIU its pretty much just painting a picture of a messed up future where the government doesnt want people to think
Spartan890 5 months ago
@TiffanyLoveIU If you need to ask, then you don't need to worry; they'd never kill you.
Kimeru 4 months ago
@TiffanyLoveIU The Government wants you stupid. Sheeple are easier to control than smart intelligent folks who think and question.
58rodros 4 months ago 20
@58rodros I fully agree. Which is why, this twilight zone episode freak me out and bothers me so much. for it's not just idea of the Government too much power. But , the idea of parents being so docile. That they aren't even willing to stand up, when their child is in danger.In the end, this nothing more then a cautionary tale of what happens. if we rely on the Government to make all our decision for us.
BlackZer00 4 months ago 19
@58rodros
History shows that the smart and incisive are rounded up and killed.
TPTB want you stupid, docile and a follower. This is due to centuries of slavery and feudalism.
Knepperify1 2 months ago 6
@58rodros and you're a credulous imbecile who believes in ufos, so you probably shouldn't be making any reference to intelligence.
zackhanscom 1 week ago
@TiffanyLoveIU because they dont want smart people alive, the want the dummies, so that way they can control you easier, its easy to control a stupid person
Bansheethekilla 1 month ago
wow, what a crazy show episode...we certainly hope our own government doesn't go to this extreme!
1MormonT 5 months ago
@1MormonT
It would never happen, people wouldn't let it happen.
CynicalVision 5 months ago
interesting.the gov will kill anyone for being tooo intelligent.hints they don't like people who can think outside the box/for themselves.sad but true
ericasamuel 5 months ago
Why are they crying if they already knew their son was special? Silly. LOL!
Bjorkadmirer 5 months ago
@Bjorkadmirer Their son got killed!!
kashma5 5 months ago
@kashma5 But I mean they probably knew that was going to happen:)
Bjorkadmirer 4 months ago
This liquid you just drank was cyanide. Good day son!
spyu 5 months ago
He turns out okay. He befriends a frog that sounds like Paul Williams.
totalrandomcrap 5 months ago 2
Not just smart. Smart and not qualified to have the intelligence. The examiner isn't dumb. The politicians who came up with the law and of course have their own genetic banks also would qualify to be intelligent.
jwhiteheadcc 5 months ago
They kill you for being smart...wtf
GrenadeAnnex 5 months ago 2
that is just sad... :( but a nice story...
kapostrophelaymeerow 5 months ago
I remember reading the short story this was based on. Nice to see how it was filmed.
wolfwarriorwill 5 months ago
The Lil Boy is so adorable
THEMUSICR 5 months ago
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this is how the tea party was formed.
starcrafter13terran 5 months ago
He looked freakin' smart.
spiceykid09 5 months ago
Thrive for your kids to do well, OR PERISH!
NeutralBanana 5 months ago
that some weird clothes in the future
Dravkoja 5 months ago
now I'm sad
SmittyandBuddy 5 months ago
this future looks so organized that its bland
redarrowhead2 6 months ago
10 people failed the government exam
wtyrepilon 6 months ago
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wtyrepilon 6 months ago
I dont get it. What happened?
Maddy922 6 months ago
@Maddy922 The child was put to death because he was too smart.
Ray13star 6 months ago
@Ray13star oh shit!
Maddy922 6 months ago
@Ray13star The young person was put to death because he had a high intelligence but his parents were of lower intelligence. Both parents had failed the test earlier in their lives. The highest threat to an aristocracy is for a highly intelligent individual or group of individuals to be born and raised in a lower class. The highly intelligent individual or group have the ability of enlightenment. This would raise the intelligence of the less intelligent and a threat to the aristocracy.
jscottcd2270 6 months ago 9
dont you tell your wish first before you blow your candles??
xXxJokerManxXx 6 months ago 2
People don't need to be too smart. I'm glad my school didn't let this one kid try to jump grades and I'm glad the college he wanted to attend required he have a high school diploma. Some people think they can finish school early and finish college early. They should be put down like this kid was! At least our government doesn't let them in to college until they are old enough
Yeppr 6 months ago
@Yeppr have them put down?? exterminate intelligent people? What would you prefer to have running the world? Ignorants, like you?
lisalahey1 6 months ago
@Yeppr wow. i surprised that you can even figure how to use a computer...you intellegence is so threateningly small..wow..you really shouldnt open your mouth
iamlyricallywritten3 6 months ago
@Yeppr So you think just because someone is intelligent they should be put to death! what the fuck is wrong with you, you ignorant bastard! People can't help it if they're naturally gifted. i hope to god that your just a troll, but if your not your a sick fuck.
mddazed022 6 months ago
@Yeppr I'm being sarcastic...Look at our current system and see why homeschooling has grown so much in the past 20 years. All they do is hold kids back. Rules Rules Rules Rules..that's all school is now..they could care less if the kids learn anything beneficial..all they care about is if they are respectful and on time
Yeppr 6 months ago
@Yeppr Wrong, they care if you pass a test, then who cares what you do after. Just because i got a slightly bad grade on a single test shouldn't mean i'm a dumb person. There's a lot of factors that go into tests, maybey person was sick, maybe a family member died, maybe they didn't study, maybe they're not good at memorizing etc etc
rletzin 6 months ago
If it were on Tales From The Crypt it would've been titled "No Child Left A-Head".
fullyhalfempy 6 months ago 3
No child left ahead.
fullyhalfempy 6 months ago 11
Best one
Ligeti43 6 months ago
I loove this one very interesting and creepy thanks for posting
britneysprsfan1 6 months ago
Sadly, this sort of thing has already happened in the real world. In dictatorships like those of Stalin and Mao, key targets for elimination or "reconditioning" were intellectuals - people smart enough to question the established order. Shows how narrow-minded, paranoid and hateful power can make you.
MegaFafnir 6 months ago 3
Thanks for posting, I saw this one when it first came out and it has always stuck in my head since then.
Questor360 6 months ago
oh my gosh a what?!
shadowvssonicful 6 months ago
Crazy
AKl0v3 7 months ago
That was great. Inspirational.
TypeOLuigi420 7 months ago
because stupid people are malable (google it) if you watch reality t.v guess what, your stupid, and most the country does. If your a grown adult and you get all your information from a biased news channel, instead of thousands of years of literature, philosophy, and history, then you are indeed an imbicile by no fault but bad parenting and habits.
Domonkoss 7 months ago 6
@Domonkoss
Don't you mean malleable?
JulietsPuppy 4 months ago
@Domonkoss I love that you're presumptuous enough to declare "google it" after what you apparently assume to be an obscure word, but you have numerous misspellings and misuse of words.
MadeInTaiwanROC 4 months ago 2
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stopthesoftkill 4 months ago
@Domonkoss And don't you mean "you're"? Watch reality television shows much? And by the way, you can use the little key marked SHIFT to make a little letter into a big letter for beginning a sentence, in case you didn't know. It is called a capital. (Google that.)
58rodros 4 months ago 2
5 minutes of fox news and he would be a subserviant little slave to the state, did they cut the scene with president Palin?
Domonkoss 7 months ago 2
Keep funneling the money to the rich, this will be the result when a handful of people control the entire country.
Domonkoss 7 months ago
Last I checked every liberal I ever talked to was 100% for putting more money into education, where as conservatives were too busy thinking up the next place to bomb, or how to funnel more money to wallmart and other republican funded corporate juggernaughts. Yes if you let the gays marry, we will enter into an orwellian hellish future, lol republicans are getting absurdly desperate.
Domonkoss 7 months ago
@Domonkoss - Yes lets put more money into the goverment school system so that every child is raised by the teachings of the federal government because the federal government can raise your child so much better than parents can.
lucasboden 6 months ago
IN the future ALL CUPS ARE SQUARE
Domonkoss 7 months ago
@Domonkoss
In the FUTURE.
SansAuthoritas 6 months ago
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America, love it or leave it.
FeedbackMonitor 7 months ago
there are 4 things that stand out,1.the Gov building in start of show is a pyramid 2..they all wear a same style shirt..rep a communist style/nwo/one world..3 the cake is blue..rep blue lodges freemason and their shirts too...4 the boy is 13...rep the 13 bloodlines of the order...and the fact Gov is controlling all aspects of human life..to kill anyone who is to smart to figure out the are fucked/walking talking slaves...
InStIllRecords 7 months ago
I wouldn't say that these parents weren't loving. They've just been cowed by the state. This is what happens when the population refuse to stand up and tell the millitary/industrial complex "No".
HPGWellscraft 7 months ago 2
@HPGWellscraft in 1984 by orwell, at least i think it was in that book, one of the parents had a chip in his brain that dumbed them down, which makes more sense since for a child to have a high IQ it would most likely have to be inherited. Still, I don't think that stupidity is the issue. I think that a sense of purpose is more important in the real word than how fast you can number crunch.
redarrowhead2 6 months ago
@redarrowhead2 as it happens 1984 is the next book i plan on reading so i shall see if this is indeed the story with the brain implant. But i believe you are right, wasn't it Winston Churchill that said "Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential."?
HPGWellscraft 6 months ago
@HPGWellscraft That isn't in "1984." Instead, it's in a Kurt Vonnegut novel, in which the citizens have to wear devices that negate whatever gift the person has in order to make everyone "equal," on a level playing field. Instead, "1984" is simply about a post-atomic world in which the government controls and spies on everyone, and where all the citizens turn each other in for imagined crimes. And there are constant wars on in all corners of the globe. Sort of like the Bush years...
MartianStories 6 months ago
@MartianStories That equalizing concept sounds alot like a trailer for a movie i just saw. i forget the name but athletic ppl had to wear weights and smart ppl had to wear earmuffs or something. It looked pretty crazy.
HPGWellscraft 5 months ago
@HPGWellscraft Yeah, that sounds like the movie version, which was pretty good. I don't remember the name of the movie, but it was the main character's name. The book had a different title. Which I also don't remember. Vonnegut books run all together in my head...
MartianStories 5 months ago
@MartianStories Well im going to look this guy up and read some of his stuff cuz he sounds like my kinda guy.
HPGWellscraft 5 months ago
@HPGWellscraft Found the title. The film was called "Harrison Bergeron." Which was pretty good. I'm not sure, but I think the Vonnegut novel was called "2081" or "Harrison Bergeron, 2081."
I actually saw Vonnegut speak when I was in college, a speech on diagramming the plot of The Great American Story. He went on for hours, drunk off his ass, diagramming several of his stories on a whiteboard. Then, he said: "It's bullshit. You CAN'T diagram a great story. They just come out or don't."
MartianStories 5 months ago
@MartianStories yup, thats the one (2081). Which is weird cuz it's fair, but then we find out that fair isn't good, or right. But this Vonnegut guy sounds like a character. LoLz imma have to look him up. :D
HPGWellscraft 5 months ago
@HPGWellscraft Yeah, he's truly a great writer. Very fun read, but on the weird side for sure. Scifi-art. I recommend "Slapstick" for a first-read. That's my fave. Although it's hard to go wrong with Vonnegut. Probably his most famous book is "Slaughterhouse Five."
MartianStories 5 months ago
@MartianStories I'll look up "Slapstick" but "Slaughterhouse Five" seems to have caught my interest. :D lolz
HPGWellscraft 5 months ago
so why did he die because he was smart?
TootlesOodles 7 months ago
@TootlesOodles exactly
HolyBomb 7 months ago
AN EPISODE LIKE THIS IS FORTELLING WHAT IS GOING TO BE IN THE REAL ZONE !!!!!
micpeee 7 months ago 14
@micpeee Maybe in North Korea. In Iran, the Intelligent people would be for Malevolent purposes.
irenaprude2010 7 months ago
@micpeee how do u see the next episode?
clemente921 5 months ago in playlist twilight zone
It really isn't at all likely that an especially kid could live to 12 without knowing what the test is really about?
melora72 7 months ago
it would be just as bad if all kids who weren't intelligent were doomed.
groovylocks 7 months ago
KKKKKKK...Parece que já começou! Dá uma olhadinha nessa matéria: nytimes.com do dia 20 de maio de 2011
mourapalmas 7 months ago
not a problem in the modern day US
gottspieler 7 months ago
Twilight zone you did it again, you freak me out with possible nightmares that would hunt me at night :)
lafabricadelcielo 7 months ago