While flipping channels, I happened to hear you saying
something like “Do theologians believe the existence of Devil,” just before you
went to the commercial. I didn’t watch the
segment since I turned the TV off after flipping a few more channels. I don’t
like watching much TV, since I feel our corporate-owned media—focusing
exclusively on profits—is influenced by the devil (equating goodness to God and
pandering to evil to the Devil); even once objective government funded public
TV is now financed by corporations and thus being held hostage at the expense
of facts.
To discuss the issue of Devil that you brought up, people
have a strange notion that the USA is being run by God, taking care of the sick,
assuring children don’t starve and get a good education etc, and consequently have such huge deficits and debt. These
people don’t seem to realize that the real reason for huge debts is the
trillions of dollars in corporate welfare that ends up only in the hands of the
extremely wealthy that in turn had created the widest wealth gap between an
extremely few super wealthy and the rest which is more than in any other
civilized nation and in addition, than any time in the history of the USA.
(Last time the income gap has been this wide was just before
the great crash of 1932. There is a good reason for it: when the middle class
don’t have money to save and consume, capitalism won’t survive; giving more
wealth to already extremely wealthy only run asset bubbles, as we are
experiencing now, exporting inflation to the poorest nations on earth (due to unaffordable commodity prices)
but not affecting us yet since our inflation comprises of two third labor cost
and that is going drastically down as the wealthiest in the nation export jobs
to slave-labor nations to make even more
profits.)
I was born in the third world and have lived in many parts
of the world thus experiencing how some people without any guilt do and say
evil things to others. Also being a voracious reader I have read many books
written by humanists writers such as Norm Chomsky and Chris Hedges-both,
unofficially, censored by our media— illustrating the evil powerful people do
to others (with tears in my eyes). A few
months I lived in Sweden, convinced me that Sweden is the “heaven-on-earth”
making sure no one dies not being able to afford healthcare and assuring
everyone gets free education all the way till they qualify to find a job that
pays them a livable wage by law. Being
curious to find out the reason for this miraculous system, I was told that came
about when the church joined in hands with the unions, corporations and the
government to come out with their system which is driven by the teaching of
Jesus Christ; now that is a nation being run by God (I hope Devil will not
appear there in the form of rightwing political philosophy—this has nothing to
do with conservatism, which is not a bad thing).
On the other hand, if the USA continued in the direction it
is going now, then I feel that Devil will have the upper hand in running this
nation. Look at what’s going on: not only a huge segment of the people cheering
the politicians and the Media, advocating eliminating any social safety net
(against their self-interest—testament to the power of brainwashing) but also
asking for increase in building weapons of mass destruction (even when the USA
is spending more on defense than most of the rest of the world combined—let me
add, a huge welfare program for the military industrial complex that is
bankrupting us) so that the multinational corporations, see any democratically
elected leader in our hemisphere turns benevolent to help the common people and
not serve just a handful of ruthless who own their nations (most people in those
nations are beyond brainwashing by their media so they elect those who promise
to help them), can convince the US government to help overthrow that leader to
enable the corporations to exploit slave labor and resources without any
limitations to make more money for those few already extremely wealthy.
I wish to add that I tried screenwriting in Hollywood for a
few years when I tried to use my lifetime experience observing evil in good
people writing a few screenplays about how good people do terrible things inspired
by Devil. One such screenplay was turned into a movie by BBC Films (“Happy Now?”-
2001) and was shown in the London Film Festival (unfortunately most of my
original intentions were not in the final draft of the screenplay).
Incidentally, when posing the issue of the devil, you showed
a clip from the latest controversial film from “History channel” where the
actor who portrays devil look bit similar to President Obama. At a time, when President Obama is asking to
increase minimum wages so that so many hardworking Americans can have three
meals a day (forget about health insurance; even that won’t be enough to meet
the appetite of the greedy health insurance cartel—devil influenced?—profits), by
showing that clip, if you were trying to insinuate that President Obama is the
“devil” then you are being influenced by the devil too. Be careful. It is those
who oppose any break for the hardest working people in this nation are the ones
being influenced by the devil.
