Fear Always Remains

You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. It is the courage to

understand what we know and to draw conclusions. (Lindqvist, Exterminate All the
Brutes, 2)

Fear always remains, says Conrad. A man may destroy everything within himself,
love and hate and belief, and even doubt, but as long as he clings to life, he cannot
destroy fear. (Lindqvist 5)

Perhaps in fear we seek an increased perception of life, a more potent form of

existence? I am frightened, therefore I exist. The more frightened I am, the more I exist?
(Lindqvist 5)

Was Conrad Really a Racist?

First we need to dissect the prompt. Let us begin by defining what it means to be racist.
In an interview on The Colbert Report this past November, Toni Morrison reminds us
There is no such thing as race. None. Theres just the human racescientifically,
anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, and it has benefits. Money
can be made off of it. People who dont like themselves can feel better because of it. It
can describe certain kinds of behaviors. It has a social function. But race can only be
defined as a human being.