The Left’s Heart Of Darkness

April 26th, 2009 (6) Posted By Pat Dollard.

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It doesn’t get much better than Joseph Conrad’s story “Heart Of Darkness.” So for many years “Apocalypse Now” was a favorite flick of mine. For the reasons spelled out in this article, it no longer is.

Big Hollywood:

“The Horror……The Horror”

by Micheal Rulle

The Anti-American Left Is Born

For the second time on this blog site I quote Karl Marx’s satirical critical witticism of Hegel: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”. Perhaps, like Marx, I too can add a twist to this aphorism. Oscar Wilde said that “life imitates art more than art imitates life”. Lets see if I can sew the giraffe’s head onto the elephant’s body. How about “All great artistic themes in history appear, as it were, twice. First as a tragic representation of profound truth, second as real life absurd farce”.

In Francis Ford Coppola’s cinematic adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now, Captain Willard heads down river in search of an Army operative, Colonel Kurtz, who had gone very much off the reservation. In a paradoxical morality play, Kurtz had become so distraught by the horrors war had rendered, he rebelled by endlessly recommitting those same horrors, but without the false pretense of purpose or meaning. The death and torture machine Kurtz established down river was visible to all who approached, as heads, corpses and skeletons lined the entrance to his encampment. Willard fittingly releases Kurtz from his self inflicted psychic hell by hacking him to death with a hatchet/machete while Jim Morrison sings “this is the end, beautiful friend”. Brando/Kurtz memorably leaves this movie-world’s stage straining out the whisper “the horror….the horror”. Apocalypse Now – Kurtz Dies

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  • pub

    “Obama feels more comfortable with Mafioso like Chavez and Castro than he does with his own”

    That’s because he is a militant with a chip on his shoulder who has been raised to hate “White America” and everything she stands for — just like our enemies.

    • ROB (FLINT89)

      “The world would have halted had it not been for the Teutonic conquests in alien lands; but the victories of Moslem over Christian have always proved a curse in the end. Nothing but sheer evil has come from the victories of Turk and Tartar.” –T Roosevelt

      Looks like Obama’s worshiping the wrong president.

  • prestonbrooks

    :arrow: Here is a superb piece from a good terrorism analysis site:

    http://homelandsecurityus.com/?p=2686#more-2686

  • Sully

    “The anti-American left is born”

    Huh? Is this author 12 years old? I met a few members of SDS in 1971. Fucks wanted to overthrow the government then and had the same rap against the Constitution being written by old white slave holders.
    Where the fuck does he think the anti-American storyline of Apocalypse now came from? Hell, Carter was (and still is) anti-American and he got elected in 1976.
    Sheesh. There’s nothing new or original going on now.
    Barry the Red has, arguably, more personal charisma than a Carter and better backing from shitheads schooled at machine politics. That’s it.

  • USNA1985

    Not sure how much credibility you can put on this author anyway, but EVERYONE knows that Captain Willard heads UP river, not down. What did the guy do, just read the back of the DVD case?, Puuuleaze!!!

  • erumuhhh

    “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”.

    more than twice, as time makes its own revolution too we are condamned to re-live the same conflictual “situations” but with different aftermaths, telling it’s a farce is an opinion

    “Perhaps, like Marx, I too can add a twist to this aphorism. Oscar Wilde said that “life imitates art more than art imitates life”.

    true

    “Lets see if I can sew the giraffe’s head onto the elephant’s body. How about “All great artistic themes in history appear, as it were, twice. First as a tragic representation of profound truth, second as real life absurd farce”.

    this is the proof that this person has no idea of what art is, a witness of our mental expression, and not a journal of facts