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->''The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own; for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to TheTwilightZone.''

* The message of ''TheDayTheEarthStoodStill'' has aged pretty well. The original of course, the message of the remake already doesn't work.

* ''InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' and other PodPeople-style stories. The '50s and '70s movies are classics that sum up what the fear of their time was while still retaining ValuesResonance. The others? Not so much.

** ''TheNextGeneration'' episode "The Drumhead" in which an Admiral, seemingly well-meaning creates a paranoid witch-hunt with trumped-up evidence and the most specious accusations. No, it wasn't made in the 21st century.

* ''The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'' was a brilliant look at psychology and the use of religion to excuse yourself while denouncing everyone else. It was written in 1824 by a poor Scottish farmer. This troper's guessing that it was dictated to him by TheFairFolk.

** does it really count that commentary on Vietnam still resonates with people who think every war is vietnam?

** YMMV on 'SilentSpring' due to the number of people in the third world that have died after the DDT restrictions made the best anti malaria tool they had too expensive to use.

** YMMV on 'SilentSpring' due to the number of people in the third world that have died after the DDT ban took away the best anti malaria tool they had.
*** Urban myth and anti-environmentalist / right wing propaganda, as DDT has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Restrictions_on_usage NEVER been banned for anti-malaria uses, only for agricultural use]]. In fact, the Malaria Foundation International highly supports the agricultural ban, "...For the first time, there is now an insecticide which is restricted to vector control only, meaning that the selection of resistant mosquitoes will be slower than before."

* ''TheAvengers'' introduced Cathy Gale, arguably the first liberated woman on television, in 1962, and her iconic successor Emma Peel in 1965. You'd probably think that now, over 40 years on, they'd be FauxActionGirls or RuleAbidingRebels. You'd be wrong. Mrs Gale and Mrs Peel, and even Tara King although to a lesser extent, are credible action heroines and feminist role models even today, much more so in fact than many who came after them. If there's one thing that doesn't hold up, it's that they are experts in just about everything ever.

* Robert "Rabbie" Burns' poem ''[[http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/holy_willie.htm Holy Willie's Prayer]]'', written in 1785 about a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Willie%27s_Prayer hypocritical church elder]] who condemns others for perceived transgression, whilst giving spurious justifications about his own. Compare with the various evangelists caught out and their own justifications for their behaviour today.

* Tibullus, an ancient Roman poet who lived in the 1st century [=BC=] wrote [[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext06/eltib10h.htm#RULE4_13 an elegy]] where he states that war is madness and wishes for peace.

* Much of the message of ''AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'' has lasted well past the 1920's. Not every war film made during that period has aged as well.

** ''TheNextGeneration'' episode "The Drumhead" in which an Admiral, seemingly well-meaning creats a paranoid witch-hunt with trumped-up evidence and the most specious accusations. No, it wasn't made in the 21st century.

* ''AtlasShrugged'' by AynRand: Response to the Obama administration have often referred to "Who is John Galt?" and "Where is Galt's Gulch?"
** YourMileageMayVary widely. To a card-carrying member of the John Birch Society? ValuesResonance, full stop. To people who got burned by the likes of Enron and Goldman Sachs? It's ''major'' ValuesDissonance
*** Surely Goldman Sachs would fall squarely into the looters?
**** Of course not! Goldman Sachs was just exercising their right to make as much money as possible. It's the ''moocher's'' fault for buying mortgages they knew they couldn't afford!

**** Of course not! Goldman Sachs was just doing being noble by trying to earn as much money as possible. It's the ''moocher's'' fault for buying mortgages they knew they couldn't afford!

* There were a number of articles from right wing periodicals when ''[[StarWars Revenge of the Sith]]'' came out, with the writers claiming the movie was a bold-faced attack on Bush administration doctrine (and, in some cases, throwing their lot in with TheEmpire). Lucas then admitted in an interview that the entire design for the prequels had been laid out when ''Watergate'' was big in the news.

* The first part of the first {{Discworld}} book, Discworld/TheColourOfMagic, bears a strange resemblance to the events that caused the 2008 economic crisis, if you squint a bit.

* Robert "Rabbie" Burns' poem ''[[http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/holy_willie.htm Holy Willie's Prayer]]'', written in 1785 about a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Willie%27s_Prayer hypocritical church elder]] who condemns others for perceived transgression, whilst giving spurious justifications about his own. Compare with the various evangelists caught out and their own justifications for their behaviour today.

*Tom Lehrer's Pollution song.