[extropy-chat] Tyranny in place

[pjmanney]

>Jay Dugger said:
>Sinclair Lewis answered this question at length in 1935. "It Can't Happen 
>Here."
>
>gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301001h.html

And from the sublime to the riduculous:

"Director–producer Kenneth Johnson wrote an adaptation [of It Can't Happen Here] titled Storm Warnings, in 1982. The script was presented to NBC, for production as a television mini-series, but the NBC executives rejected the initial version, claiming it was too 'cerebral' for the average American viewer. To make the script more marketable, the American fascists were re-cast as anthropophagic extraterrestrials, taking the story into the realm of science fiction. The new, re-cast story was the mini-series V, which premiered on May 3, 1983. The story remains a Nazi allegory, right down to the swastika-like emblem used by the Visitors." (Wikipedia)

And you just thought at the time "Bitchin'!  Sci-Fi on Prime Time!"

PJ