Loss of common sense - racist subtext in Avatar

cassar

BALLSCRATCHER
this thread is starting to get really ,really deep im sitting here trying to make head or tail from it the one thing that bounces around my noggin is that this seems to me to be a prime example of the subject topic, racism/predjudice but of the intellect, excuse my grammer. i will try to explain further, the subject matter can be applied to nearly any subject what im getting at, the human condition everyone's perceptions are slightly different you could say like a mind fingerprint thats individual and fluid and changes with the criteria of the moment its when opinion becomes ideology that the darker side comes to the fore, dont know if these examples apply , but anyway, islam an essentially peaceful religion perverted by extremists, football supporters turned into hooligans. as long as humans exsist i believe there will always be predjudice, injustice and rascism its just ingrained into us at a base level something primeval and tribal about the whole thing, our ability to rationalise things like this is the only difference between us and "dumb" animals, i saw a documentary once about chimps and how sometimes they get an urge for meat and actively hunt, tear to pieces and eat an unfortunate monkey. take away the thin layer of what we call civilised society and deep down we are all just trying to get a chunk of meat before its all gone.
 

Yuggoth

New member
I wouldn`t use this guy as an example for literary analysis. I don`t know about the standarts elsewere, but at my University (Bochum, Germany) every Professor in the field would call this a piece of crap!
Trust me, they are very aware that most of the so called "hard science" thinks they are doing nothing but mirror-fencing and try really hard to fight that notion. By the way, the idea that there are no hard facts is not as rediculus as ist sounds at first. The wikipedia-article on epistemology is a good starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

Concerning the film: Have to see it yet, but heard most of the Ideas where "borrowed" from the "humanx-commonwealth"-series of SF-writer Alan Dean Foster, especially the novel "midworld".
That pocahontas-summary made me my day! really funny!
 

cassar

BALLSCRATCHER
borrow'd ideas

there seems to be a lot of that sort of thing on the go at the moment, if you want to see simular types of movies i watched district 9 last night. nice effects they should get the fx guys in touch with gw the simularities to the tau are freaky (re the tech stuff).

its like watching a tom sharpe novel
 
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