Monday, August 3, 2009

2012 or Apocalypse Now






The 2012 Event may be the least of our worries. Man's INHUMANITY to man is our biggest problem today. For all of you don't know Apocalypse Now was based on Albert Camus' Heart of Darkness. This book is a must read.

http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Darkness-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0192801724


Wiki -

Albert Camus (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ kamy]) (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He is often associated with existentialism, but Camus refused this label.[1] He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.

In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which (according to the book Albert Camus, une vie by Olivier Todd) was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (after Rudyard Kipling) when he became the first Africa-born writer to receive the award, in 1957.[2] He is also the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident only three years after receiving the award.

In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"[3]

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