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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
