"There was happiness. There was love."    

               

Persons seeking wisdom often turn to historical sources like Holy Scripture, Socrates, Plato, and Confucious. American examples include Jefferson and Paine. 

For contemporary ones, many look to Victor Davis Hanson, Ben Shapiro, and late Christian conservative Charlie Kirk.

An unorthodox source, though, is 1959 drive-in sci-fi attraction Teenagers From Outer Space.

Having landed their silver saucer on Earth's terra firma, youthful explorers from an unnamed planet quickly fall into argument. When the cruel-hearted leader barks concern for "Our people," a compassionate shipmate becomes defiant. 

"'Our people?,' he thunders. "We live as parts of a machine! We don't know our fathers and mothers. We're raised in cubicles. The sick and the old are put to death!"

The stone-visaged commander grimaces. "It is the one and only way to maintain the supreme race! Have you forgotten?"

"Our people have forgotten!," comes the rejoinder. "They have been made to forget for centuries. But I have learned how it once was: Families. Brothers and sisters. There was happiness. There was love."

Later, having fled his cold-blooded fellows, the rebellious junior alien who longed for 'the way things once were' finds refuge with an Earth father and daughter. "You knew your brother?" he asks her, incredulous at the concept of familial familiarity.

Consider current 'woke' speakers' contemptuous dismissal of parental rights, hostility toward the nuclear family, and abortion and euthanasia fervor. Notions touted in left precincts, they are in keeping with Teenagers B-movie depiction of a coldly sterile culture. One in which human emotional bonds are rejected, and where insensate mechanical efficiency is hailed as superior.

Too, the flinty astral leader's reference to "supreme race" was of a piece with the monstrous eugenics theories embraced by Third Reich-era nazis, as well as Planned Parenthood founder (and Democrat Party hero) Margaret Sanger.

Despite its bargain-basement production effects and cardboard cut-out character types, Teenagers from Outer Space underscored human warmth and the importance of prioritizing sensitivities over cold calculations.