Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK
…s first season, aliens discover that they can conquer Earth most easily by using flickering lights to infuse paranoia and fear in its human inhabitants. They found that communities thus charged would turn on each other and the human race would self-destruct. Since 2001, when Homeland Security began to impose “threat levels” that legitimized the increase in surveillance and control after 9/11, we’ve become used to (and yet also entirely unprepared…
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