Written by Tanya Free   

Art is sometimes known to imitate life with a twist of exaggeration, whether on the big screen or small screen. But when life starts to imitate art, I’m compelled to ask the question – what’s going on?

Some may remember the popular television series “Twilight Zone” that ran in the late 1950’s. This bizarre drama portrayed ordinary people with ordinary lives that found themselves confronted with surreal situations that challenged their will to survive as well as their sanity. In the episode “The Self Improvement of Salvadore Ross,” a self-centered man, used magic to make trades with people for his own personal gain. In “The Brain Center at Whipple’s,” a corporate owner laid off workers replacing them with machines.

The present state of our country along with the lack of humanity and in many cases just the lack of plain common sense in today’s society have turned our lives into a real life surreal drama. The Twilight Zone TV show analogy is quite fitting considering today’s challenges just to survive and maintain one’s sanity in light of the turmoil of our economy, too big to fail Corporate America, costly and senseless wars, political madness, escalating tension in the Middle East and on and on and on. Let me not fail to mention our newly elected crop of public teacher bashing, budget slashing, union busting Governors jockeying for their daily five minutes of primetime exposure on all of the networks.

Is it me or does it feel like we are all in the middle of a present day Twilight Zone episode?

I say that it is high time for this episode to come to the caption that reads “The End.”


Live life with a purpose!