We depend on our sight so much that when we travel into the darkness, we lose our sense of reality. In this blindness, it's as if we've closed our eyes and woken up in a dream-that is, without limitations. As we travel into the darkness, others are blind to our actions and we are blind to our own. As demonstrated by Kurtz, when we lose sight of ourselves for too long, we are capable of anything.
We are all just blank slates shaped and molded by our environment that can be influenced to do anything. We can find ourselves justifying radical ideas and soon after committing atrocities if our environment allows us to. The Crusades and the Holocaust are evidence of this. Rarely can/do people stand up to the influence of their environment.
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