He is accused of "inciting evil winds" and "lighting evil fires" through visits to restive regions like Tibet and Xinjiang, and of being a "guide dog" for Chen Guangcheng, a blind activist whose asylum in America he engineered.
Manichaeism, a dualistic religion founded in the 3rd century ad by Mani, an Iranian prophet, like Gnosticism divided the world into two spheres Goodness (Light) and Evil (Darkness).
Rather than bringing the truth to light, expunging evil and making the world sensible and readable again, the trial in "Anatomy of a Murder" leads to a verdict but not to a resolution.
Connie Britton made perhaps the most whiplash-inducing transition of this year's Emmy nominees, going from clear eyes and full hearts in "Friday Night Lights" to evil spawn and pig pancreas in FX's outlandishly odd "American Horror Story".
It reminds me of something Joseph Campbell said in "The Hero With a Thousand Faces" about the duality of good and evil, light and darkness: "The best we can do is lean toward the light".
They believed that the world was sharply divided between good and evil, light and darkness; all matter was at its heart dark, but plants contained illuminating "light particles" and were therefore okay to eat, while flesh derived from darkness and was therefore taboo.
Man is indeed a mixture of life and death, good and evil, light and darkness and our dreadful sins have cut us off from the source of light, goodness and life.
We talked about the contrast between good and evil, light and dark.
We may still use a few evil light bulbs, but we have at least learned to switch them off.
'Darkness and light, good and evil go hand in hand, you can't separate them,' he says.
