To Serve Man

Remember that Twilight Zone episode, “To Serve Man”? It was about aliens (as in from outer space) that come to earth. They are not only friendly, but want to serve, help and please mankind. The alien race begin taking humans on spaceships back to their planet where it is promised they can serve man best under optimal conditions.

The aliens have a book. It, of course is written in their language so no one knows what it says.  A group of linguistics translate the title of the book. It reads, “To Serve Man”. How magnificent! The alien race always carry with them a book on the best way to serve us!

Later, the man to whom the story is central to, is about to board the alien spacecraft and go to the alien planet when a fellow linguistic yells to him. “To Serve Man. It’s a cookbook”.

Yep, thousands and thousands of humans who thought “To Serve Man” meant a life of pleasure and benefit found out that it was actually going to be a short lived life for the pleasure and benefit of someone else, on their dinner plate.

This is how I think of the government today. Not just ours, but the governments of the world. They promise “To Serve Man”, all the while leading us to our slaughter, for their pleasure and benefit.

To make matters worse, we know this and don’t care anymore. The lust and desire of the promise, and the very temporary temporal satisfactions we receive blinds man to the horror and reality of the situation. Man is so infatuated with the pleasure and benefit of the here and now that the consequence of that tomorrow is nowhere to be thought of or cared for.

Man has always been driven by the pleasure/pain principle. He has always been drawn by pleasure and repelled by pain. Sin is built on this basic premise. In my opinion though, never has man had such a disregard to consequence. The promise of benefit and pleasure so weighs on the mind and excites his spirit that man disregards ancient and recent history, but totally refuses to face the reality of today.

Bill Hitchcock