Sunday, November 8, 2015
Heart of Darkness 2015
Our present day Heart of Darkness is complicated. I think that regions like Africa and Middle East are definitely valid regions where our heart of darkness could lie, but I think that our heart of darkness extends beyond this region. Our heart of darkness could be anywhere where we see the people as 'others', whether it be the Middle East, Africa, or even within Chi-raq. Our heart of darkness lies within us and therefore could potentially be anywhere. I believe it is anywhere where we hold people as lesser than us by social standards. Yet, I believe this gets complicated. Like the Onion article titled "Massive Earthquake Reveals Entire Island Civilization Called Haiti", I realize the problems with the innate compulsiveness to help countries based on the idea that it establishes you as a greater nation. But should we not hep anything based on this? Should we leave countries and people alone and trust in them to solve their own problems even though we have the capabilities to help them? Would doing this rid us of our heart of darkness? I truly don't know.
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I like how you put our Heart of Darkness inside of us, instead of something external. I think that you're on the right track with that idea, because I don't think world initially has a Heart of Darkness, but once people are involved there then comes a Heart of Darkness.
ReplyDeleteI also really like how you think our Heart of Darkness is actually something that is common among all humans. I never really thought about actually having the Heart of Darkness be ourselves and in that sense I think this is a unique perspective.
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