Tuesday Travel With Vice Magazine: Liberia

In 1902 when Joseph Conrad published his book Heart of Darkness, the literary world was introduced to a new concept of real world savagery. It was about the degeneration of the civilized to brutal primitivism of man's psyche and soul. Unfortunately, even today over 100 years later when we think of the continent of Africa we think of a brutal and unforgiving place. Even though it's full of resources, the exploitation of colonialism and thousands of years old blood feuds between ethnic interests have kept almost the entire continent in a perpetual state of conflict and almost unimaginable poverty.

This week I like to share with you a documentary on just one of the smaller countries on this continent called Liberia. The Vice crew travel there with cameras and document everything they experience as it happens. this is one of the most brilliant pieces of journalism I have ever seen, and how everybody walked away without at least a Pulitzer and with their lives really confuses me. There will be parts of this documentary that may be very disturbing to some readers/viewers of this blog, but I feel that it is absolutely necessary for every human being to watch the entire hour of this documentary to be grateful for what they have in life...

I hope you at least learned that maybe your day isn't so bad....