Chomsky's Devils

From David Hawkes review of Noam Chomsky's most recent work:

This ideological chasm between the American Left and its putative constituency yawns nowhere wider than in Chomsky’s withering references to popular religion. He cites the fact that “about 75% of the US population has a literal belief in the devil” as the clearest possible example of American ignorance and stupidity. But is it really so different from his own beliefs? Throughout his career, Chomsky has depicted a world ruled by demonic forces of quite incredible malice and guile. Whatever is running the world Chomsky describes is undoubtedly a very greedy, violent and selfish entity – it would be hard not to call it “evil”, or even Evil, were such tropes not sternly prohibited by the monochrome literalism of our age.

Chomsky's slightly conspiratorial worldview doesn't appeal to me much at all. In fact, I'm rather turned off by it. However, I can sympathise to a great degree with his characterisation of spectator sports as a tool to "make people more passive." Rather the opposite function of art, is it not?