Avatar is about capitalism
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allow me to play the idiot-younger-sibling of said devil's advocate and just point out you can absolutely touch electricity, which is why we put safety plugs in them to keep toddlers from licking electrical outlets.
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Drag is correct, but it's fantasy evolution we're talking about
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From what I took from the movie, there was a knowledge that such a collective overarching conscience existed. It wasn't a figment of imagination nor a collective (de)illusion. It was tangible in that way.
And being cheeky: electricty can't be touched? i disagree. Every single time I put my fingers where I shouldn't, it reminded me in very tangible way I wasn't looking at what I was doing.
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Sad but true.
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Dragon Rider (drag)replied to [email protected] last edited by
Oh. This argument is pointless. Carry about your day, then.
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Usually, at this point, I would say even a broken clock us right twice a day, but I'm trying to get accostumed to receive a compliment, so I'll instead say thank you for those kind words. And that we agree.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
Yeah man, we all understood that the first time around when it was called Fern Gully.
Like Avatar if you want but like.... it is not a deep piece of media with hard-to-discern messaging. Shit is pretty clear.
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Maybe. Or maybe they like the pollution. Maybe with better resource availability, they're able to spend more energy on growing bigger and stronger without threatening survival.
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Electricity can be felt, but not touched.
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Fucking Tarzan was fighting evil white exploiters of pristine Africa in books back in the early 1900s.
A good white saviour from the evil white people, because the indigenous can't do it for themselves. Just like in Ferngully and Avatar.
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That said, even the masters will fall back on nonsense to make a point. Asimov had coal-powered spacecraft in the Foundation Trilogy to show how technology was slipping backward as if that makes any sense whatsoever.
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In this particular user's case, it wouldn't shock me. Look them up in the .world modlog some time. It's quite enlightening.
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I can't decide if I should post the "wait, it's all the failures of capitalism?" or "wait, it's all systemic racism?" meme, cuz it's wait it's all both (always has been).
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Regardless of megafaunata, just by being in Australia, humans became an invasive species and did all sorts of damage that invasive species do.
Worse, indigenous Australians brought the dingo with them. Two very intelligent predators where two didn't exist before did a lot of damage. Colonizing Europeans also did a lot of damage and nothing that the indigenous people in Australia did justifies what Europeans (basically just the British, let's be fair) did, but pretending that indigenous humans aren't as flawed as all other humans does them a disservice. It does not help indigenous people to put them up on pedestals and treat them as noble savages.
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gotta make headway before you start backsliding...
otherwise it's just going the wrong way.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
Paved paradise, put up a parking lot.
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Dune is a universe where computers are severely limited. The ability to synthesize organic chemicals may be limited by that alone.
IIRC, the Tleilaxu do figure out how to produce spice artificially in their Axlotl tanks, but those are another example of Dune getting weirder and more disturbing as it goes.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
"It's human nature," okay bud and what about all the groups in history that prove otherwise? You're just washing history with capitalist mindsets.
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مهما طال الليلreplied to [email protected] last edited by
It is also about settler colonialism. There are natural gas fields off the coast of Gaza.
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But they do eventually manage, don't they?
