From Dust to Dessert

In the episode “To Serve Man” from The Twilight Zone Mr. Chambers was apparently a specialist on languages or something similar to it. His job was to translate a book that was brought to earth from some type of aliens. Mr. Chambers' boss says: “I suggest that for the time being you continue your process of deciphering until you can tell us precisely, and I mean precisely what that book says.” After hearing this order he acted very arrogantly as if there was no need of checking all the book to see what it said. The only thing that was translated was the title that said “To Serve Man.” Mr. Chambers didn’t care much about the rest of the book because he let himself guide by the title, which he was confident to be with good purposes coming from an alien proposing new ideas to America. The attitude of Mr. Chambers doesn’t serve very well because at the end of the story, suffering the consequences when he’s boarding the alien spaceship, his secretary who did take the time to translate the book that the alien gave them ran off and told him that the book was actually a cook book (I have to admit this part made me laugh). When he was alarmed he was forced into the spaceship and in the spaceship he made a very interesting kind of soliloquay where he noticed that the aliens were going to eat him so he said “We'll sooner or later be on the menu” which is a very profound statement given the context of this episode. Later, the narrator said that we were part of a metamorphosis that coverts us "from dust to dessert", from rulers of the world to condiment in someone’s soup.