Here’s a sobering quote from from an interview on CNN.com today with American film director Oliver Stone:
"There is something in the human heart, the international human heart, that is evil," said Stone, "That’s the evil that turns its mind and ears on humanity and is able to say ‘I can kill a person in the name of God or religion. This is not a human being, this a fanatic. And I fear that fanaticism is the result of our overreaction to 9/11,"
It’s been a while since I read Joseph Conrad’s book Heart of Darkness (upon which Apocalypse Now was based) but Stone’s quote makes me think that this is what Conrad was refering to. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a re:telling of that book in the next few years – it seems highly applicable to where the world is today.
Harnessing Chaos 