Stripped of the mask, the trip to the other side can be brief but chillingly permanent. Conrad's Darkness was in the heart of British colonial Africa, well before Hitler. We are vilifying the wrong dark heart. The evil will not die because it is a human characteristic that can surface within any of us who fail to be vigilant against it. For balance, and in timely fashion, it adds the far-right militias of the American West and labels Hitler's influence.
Time is a right-wing rag.
If we want to understand this evil we'd best stop pointing fingers at the evil without and take a long hard look at the evil within. Francis Ford Coppola took Conrad's upriver trip into the Mekong, into the dark heart of American woe. American aid has backed genocide and death squads in Indonesia, the Philippines, Central and South America. It has destabilised nations of no direct security threat, fomenting bloody civil war, installing military dictatorships. If we praise ourselves as a people for standing together against the evils of Hitler, Stalin et.