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Steve nodded. "That takes care of the Levite," he said. "Now tell me, what would that fourth person's response be towards the priest in today's world? What do you see happing in America on this front?"
"The priest represents empire, and empire represents permanent war," I said to Steve. "So what do I see on this front? I see our society, represented by its government, spending 25 to 30 billion dollars per year on covert operations designed to destabilize other nations, assassinate their leaders at will, and to destroy their economy. We arrogantly invade foreign lands and shoot the people living there. We call this an aspect of civilization. We bomb people's villages, blow up their houses, and torture whatever prisoners we care to arrest. We do this to enforce democracy unless they allow us to steal their resources peacefully and surrender their sovereignty at our feet. We've turned democracy into a sham. Many of our most noble institutions now support scores of high-level economic hit men that cleverly cheat the poor nations out of billions to dollars to the point that evermore people are forced to be scrounging the garbage dumps for scraps of food. If a dying child in its mother's arms asks its mother if there is food in heaven, and this happens even in the great food-exporting nations, we have to admit that love is dead in our hearts. We now support the largest slavery operations in all history. We shut down our industries and hire the poverty stricken in foreign countries for slave labor wages and demand from them products at prices so low that the necessary infrastructures for maintaining their society cannot be created. We are using them up as in the olden days of slavery. We are killing those people, just as we are killing millions each year with our shameful resurrection of malaria that we enforced with the DDT ban for purely political reasons. The whole world knows that malaria is an insect borne disease that destroys a person's liver, causing great agonies until a person dies, but we don't care. That's what society says to the modern priesthood. It says, 'we do not give a damn.' We are forcing 500 million people into this malaria trap with our continuing banning of the readily available DDT insect control that had once nearly eradicated malaria. Millions now die each year, most of them children. In Africa alone, a child dies every thirty seconds in great agony under our brutal dictatorship. Of course this death toll is minuscule in comparison to the death toll from poverty that we have proudly created. Estimates range as high as 50,000 needless death per day from poverty related causes. And still society says, 'we do not give a damn.'
"Since we are the fourth person in the parable I see us supporting the priest," I said after a short pause. "I see us asking the priest who made a detour around the injured man to go back to the scene of tragedy and check to find out if there was still some life left in the man laying at the wayside, who in his debilitated condition might yet be useful as a slave for a few days. That is what we are saying when we support globalized stealing and globalized mass murder. That is also what we are supporting as we line up at the slavery product stores."
Steve raised his hand and nodded again. "That takes care of the priest," he said. "How do we respond to the Samaritan in today's world? How does society respond to someone like the Samaritan?"
"We spend 30 billion a year to destabilize the world and destroy humanity, and many more billions to finance wars, and even more than that on games and entertainment of violence and horror," I said quietly. "How much do you think today's society spends in support of those who have dedicated their life to elevating society, to enriching its humanity, and to ennobling its culture. How much do you think, Steve, the American society is supporting its leading pioneers in the development of a wider sense of love?"
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