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[rationibus]

"The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience."

Conrad on the Belgian Congo

[rigoletto68]

same can be said about Wall Street today, eh?

[NeverAloneForever]

@mielazul I see what you mean. Then again, I think I should have put 'cynical' into context. I meant that he expressed cynicism towards some 'commonly' known as positive views. Particularily, his detached attitude. Of course, it's good that he brings this point of view to light. He was one of the first modernist writers, as I know. With anti-heroic characters and all.

[mielazul]

@NeverAloneForever I think he had a dark outlook, but I also think he sympathized with peoples' efforts to try to impose a personal meaning on what seems like a meaningless impersonal universe. So I don't think I would use the word "cynical," which to me connotes a kind of unsympathetic contempt. But I know what you mean, and I appreciate the response. Sorry to nitpick with the words.

[NeverAloneForever]

@mielazul He certainly didn't have much of a high opinion of whites. In the book, Marlowe (who isn't the narrator of course), disliked the white people in the congo. He was quite cynical, amirite?

[hermenegildo911]

@Fas6pa I disagree. I think he viewed human beings as savages that were slaves to their pleasures, both black and white. What about Kurtz? Was he able to repress his nature for a greater good during his stay in Congo?

[Nototu]

@Szyszeczka1 Nawet nie próbujesz zrozumieć o czym oni piszą

[mielazul]

@Fas6pa Please don't judge this great man by modern PC standards. He was a profound man who was shocked and outraged by the treatment of Africans in the Belgian Congo. Does that mean he viewed Africans as his equals?  Probably not. But I can tell you, as a person who has traveled widely and associated with all manner of peoples - most people are, in private anyway, somewhat critical of other races and ethnic groups. And, on some levels, I don't think Joseph Conrad had any equals anyway.

[Szyszeczka1]

@Fas6pa

whay i think that you're an idiot? simply - you don't understand what Conrad wants to say, and you're boasting it.. try to read and think more. think. THINK. use your brain. and i can understend, that Conrad isn't politically correct. so what? he wants to teach, not insult.

oh, and sorry for my english. it's poor ;)

[Szyszeczka1]

@Fas6pa - You're racist, you know? you're from USA, am i right? i'm from Poland. do i have to spell correctly, write perfectly in english, because you're too good to learn foreign languages, and everyone who wants to say something - have to use your language?

nice argument, huh?

[Fas6pa]

@Szyszeczka1 Says the moron that can't even spell correctly. Move along, troll.

[Szyszeczka1]

@Fas6pa and you're an idiot. so and so that it is eaven imposible to explain. try to read and think more. oh, and in modern sense - you're an idiot.