The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Rod Serling was the early television pioneer and visionary who created one of the best television shows in history – “The Twilight Zone.” His creative thread starting in 1959 through the early 1960s brought to American families glued weekly to their television sets plentiful philosophical food for thought to ponder our mysterious universe until next week’s equally evocative episode. One show in particular divulged how suburbanite America can easily be taken over by planting seeds of fear and suspicion that quickly morph into extreme paranoia and murderous violence by an unseen outside invasive force targeting America in an episode entitled “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.”[1] The underlying theme and message are delivered throughout the show’s half-hour plotline but summarized in the imitable, wise and sobering afterthoughts by the series creator himself:

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices – to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill – and suspicion can destroy – and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own – for the children – and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is — that these things cannot be confined – to the Twilight Zone.[2]

This incisive morsel of truth offered the public nearly six decades ago during television’s golden age can just as easily speak to and be applied to the humans living today. But instead of the unseen alien invaders insidiously destroying us, preying on our vulnerabilities, fears and vices, it’s the planetary controllers, the ruling elite bent on dividing and conquering us in every way imaginable to the point of utter self-destruction.[3] Deceptive manipulation of staged world events as presented through mainstream media’s sleight-of-hand lens,[4] with carefully coordinated collusion from the Hollywood propaganda machine, is busily shaping and determining our very values, beliefs, and perceptions of reality, now on a global scale"

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AGAINST PROGRESSIVE ARTIVISM

 As a dissident facing the stark binary of the edgy flippancy of the Postmodernists and creaky archaisms of the ultra-conservatives, one sometimes despairs, not least because the critiques from both sides are valid.

Yet if we set aside aesthetic questions, reactionary attitudes and artivism should be a perfect fit. A rejection of the legitimacy of the extant status quo has always been fertile ground for dissident avant-garde art. Artivists you will have heard of (Banksy, Tania Bruguera, Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramovich, Guerilla Girls) claim to be rebellious but are not. What if there were artivists who actually overturned assumptions and questioned the politically convenient pablum we are fed?

One area where Postmodern traditionalists have adopted a powerfully effective form of artivism is in memes. The meme is the quintessential reactionary form. It allows pithy expression of known truths in a manner that is punchy, mordant, memorable, and subversive of establishment bromides. A well-crafted reactionary meme delights the same way a lampoon does, by pricking the pompous bombast of egalitarians and sly disingenuousness of nudge-policy authoritarians. The meme works when it rings true and uses few words – sometimes no words at all – and that rests on what the maker and consumer instinctively know. The meme can use a shorthand of established vocabulary (verbal and visual) and adopt the opponent’s cultural imagery.

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