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/^t/However, Kurtz was not a colonialist in at least two ways. First of all, his attitude was not related to the colonial ideology at the level of inspiration. The strong belief in the superiority of the white must have been supported in his mind by equally powerful, internal lust for hegemony. Otherwise, the sick ideas exercised by Kurtz would have been most common till the present day; after all, colonialism was not the ideology of a marginal minority. Looking at the example of Kurtz, one may talk about the "power for power's sake" which is, in the general sense, very close to insanity.