Avatar is about capitalism

[qyron@sopuli.xyz]

So... We manage to master space travel. We manage to master interstellar travel. We eventually find a planet with suitable for sustaining our species. And we just overlook it.

Can someone explain me the reasoning behind this?

Sci-fi to the side, there are more minerals available - readily - on asteroids and barren planets than anywhere else. Why go hopping around looking for habitable planets, to the reason of 1 out of who knows how many, to then strip mine it?

[ours@lemmy.world]

Wait until you learn about its subtle ecological message!

[justjack23@slrpnk.net]

[qyron@sopuli.xyz]

You realized I just opted for having a divergent view on the subject, right?

[fuglyduck@lemmy.world]

The resource being extracted on the avatar planet was unobtanium.

It was only available on that planet, precisely so intelligent people like you can’t say “why not mine barren rocks instead”?

[fuglyduck@lemmy.world]

Some people are dense enough that “the point” is the name of a baseball bat you have to go get to get it across.

It was also about the poor soldiers getting used to further capitalism.

Honestly, though…. That military wasn’t very credible. Half their aircraft you could disable by dumping buckets of pebbles into the fans.

[justjack23@slrpnk.net]

It seems more like intentionally missing the main point of the comic.

[librehans@lemmy.world]

What do you mean? Communists didn't mine minerals and didn't exploit indigenous people? Lol..

[pyre@lemmy.world]

you forget the kind of people who complain that wolfenstein games or the x-men animated series "became" political

[qyron@sopuli.xyz]

There are exactly zero minerals available inside planets that are unavailable on asteroids.

Sci-fi will be sci-fi but can we go back to the time it was at least well thought? Can't hurt. If the objective of the movie was to make social criticism, it didn't need to go to such lenghts.

And it was a boring movie; failed to captivate me.

[avengefulaxolotl@lemmy.world]

I dont get it either. This is not about capitalism, this is about human nature of mindless expansion and exploitation...

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

There are exactly zero minerals available inside planets that are unavailable on asteroids.

Crystallised urea

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

That's right. For example, Australian communists lived in balance with nature for 60,000 years. Then capitalists came and started breaking stuff.

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

There's someone arguing otherwise in this very thread

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

Pollution actually makes the bugs stronger. Maybe they like pollution and want to go eat it all up.

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

Businesses under capitalism aren't required to pay for the externalities of their decisions. In a democratic economy, the people affected by corporate decisions would have a say in those decisions. It's reasonable to assume that people want to breathe clean air and continue to have food and water, so they'd support policies that do that.

[dylanthedeveloper@lemmy.world]

Literally Satisfactory

[qyron@sopuli.xyz]

Nice to cross paths with you again!

I'll grant that but what use for crystalized urea is there? Urea I know a few. And if we already know how to cultivate diamonds and other artificial gems, why bother mining for that?

[essell@lemmy.world]

I guess those megafauna who vanished about 59,500 years ago were really messing with the balance.

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

Drag was making an allegorical point. Perhaps Unobtanium results from an organic process. In the second movie, the capitalists are killing whales for a substance in their brains that makes people immortal. Can't find that on an asteroid.