And again – you're getting the same arguments today with violence and hip-hop music and how it's translating.
Oh yeah. The movies, I don't know. They got this whole culture of ugliness. There's this Korean kid who shot these people [Virginia Tech Shootings] and he's made a movie of himself. Except the people he shot won't be able to get up and collect their paychecks.
And all the pontification, they all were asking 'how did this kid go wrong?' He watched the wrong movies.
But don't you think part of it is when the media puts it in terms of records – largest mass killing to date – and glorifies the act?
That's the way they compete with the violent movies, is by having violent crime. I don't watch TV. But if you do watch an evening of TV, as I have done on occasion in my life, you see more violence and ugliness concentrated into four or five hours than I've seen in my whole life of 65 years. You can't show tender love scenes of people having sexual congress, that would be wrong and that would be immoral, but to blow your face off – that's entertainment.
It's disturbing. Isn't it?
You can only do this kind of stuff for so long and then you start paying for it. And we're paying for a lot of this stuff now, but they still don't get it. They don't understand why the Arabs and Muslims are upset. 'Why are they so upset with us? We're nice people.' The CIA has been working for us since they threw over Mossadegh in 1954. If we don't give them the history, they can't understand why what's happening is happening.
Look at Europe, they remember Hitler because they had him right there – in their face. There were some people who really liked him. He represented their views on Jews and other people, but they remember what happened. So they look at this they see what it is. There is no love for America, no love at all. Plus there is no respect. They all think we're idiots.
Maybe that's a good reason for your book to be coming back out. Maybe the youth will read it and be inspired to change things.
It was definitely written for kids, that's the other thing. It was a book that was put together for people who didn't read. It wasn't written as a book, you know. It's a collection of columns for the underground papers.
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