Respond to MDMS

The closing has several comments. ¨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.¨ This means that people or humans overcome or subdue others not necessarily by force and by using real weapons, but they can do it by mental or moral force as ideas, concepts, judgements, opinions, behaviour, conduct or position, and unreasonable judgement that we form without due examination of facts. ¨For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a spacegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children yet unborn.¨ This means that for example, the opinions we make without adequate basis can kill indirectly –affect, damage, impair, injure or cause loss-, and that suspicion can ruin totally, and that a careless non considerate fearful search for a spacegoat has terribly consequences for innocent people. ¨And the pity of it is that these things cannot not be confined to the Twilight Zone!¨ This means that the worst of all is that all these things can not be limited to the dimension of imagination, or the area or zone of imagination.

I think that the message the author is giving to us, is good because it is true that any person can destroy without real weapons, but with fairly ones which are our thoughts, attitudes and prejudices, by using terrible, sarcastic, offensive, silly words, or by being or acting in a scornful, mocking manner. Also I think that there can be a real war without weapons, that can leave destruction of the most important things we have,- our feelings, our hearts, our souls – and that if those things don`t kill us, they can leave a wound as deep as a trench that can not heal as when you wrinkle a piece of paper and you realize that you really need that paper, and you try to mend it and turn it as it was before. You will never get it because now it has a lot of lines that are not erasable. And these thoughts, attitudes and prejudices are product of our minds.

I think the tele play ¨The Monsters are Due on Maple Street¨ could be updated if we change many things in the story such as using different objects as computers, cell phones, internet, watches, etc. thet would be affected by the blockout, too. Now there are many people who think that alliens do really exist as a lot of evidence scientists have found and have not explained. Also because humans have traveled into space and have sent spaceshuttles and spacecrafts into space, and maybe because many people think that scientists do not show and say everyting they find out to the public. Also, the story would be set in Arizona as there is a lot of open land. And I think Tommy would know that events could have been caused by alliens due to the lot of information we can find throughout the world by using the internet, or maybe they could have been caused by solar flares that can disrupt electromagnetic signals and electricalpower probles for homes and businesses.