Floyd even notes that everything has a price, you just need to find the tag. The outside businessman who seeks to take the product of a culture, reinterpret it as a resource, and put it on the market to benefit himself.' This makes me think of how humans put monetary value on pieces of the natural world like oil or diamonds so they can profit. But the question may arise: Is it right to claim ownership of those things? Big Joel notes 'the act of purchasing these songs isn't presented as an exchange so much as a parasitic act. This is like how people find a natural resource, claim it as their own, and then sell it in some form. He seeks to purchase music made by the townsfolk for his own gain but notes that the music is already part of the public domain. In a Big Joel video Joel theorizes that the tale is a 'meditation on what it means to own things.' I think this is an aspect in the overall message and the representation of man as Floyd. To me the story is a symbolic depiction of man's relationship to nature.įloyd Burney represents man. Thus as a random person who hasn't watched every episode but watched a lot and then randomly this one in isolation, I've decided to share my decryption. People can't easily come to a conclusion on the message or meaning this episode conveys.

Others have noted that this episode stood out as strange even among the Twilight Zone library. I recently watched the season 5 episode 'Come Wander With Me'.

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