The problem with ideas: our way is the way – good survival, bad social.

We defend our beliefs but

Humble vulnerability increases the amount of love in the world – and would improve all life

If we could share, the world would be a better place

Kurtz sees that.

But we fear the unknown, what is not us is a danger, and we won’t accept it.

We enforce our ideas over the unknown and shine light by burning fire

And progress halts as people war, and ideas are lost. Our need to survive triumphs over want for
truth.

To sacrifice our identity to improve the world would be the best way to be; but

We will not sacrifice our identity – our beliefs can be more important than our lives

Collective ego will fight which causes a great rift and people go to war and make enemies of one
another, rather than friends.

Would that all humanity experienced a new enlightenment, a spiritual awakening that revealed to us
the love we all bear for existence and helped each other find peace, and progress to a better place.
If we put our ideals aside and learned of one another’s ideas and beliefs.

But we won’t.

Heart of Darkness reveals that, to stray too far from what is socially good – is to become the
unknown which is a threat to social identity.
Survival dictates that we destroy or domesticate any threat.

Until we realise that and learn holy love once more, ignorant hatred will reign.

In conclusion, the impossibility of knowledge and the risk of vulnerability prevent nations from
making peace.
Participation perpetuates the narrative of evil.

Kurtz’s realisation in Apocalypse Now is awful.

The humanity of the natives undermines the entire Western ideology.
The horror of that realisation is terrible.