--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
[snip] > > At Comic Con 2009, Cameron told attendees that he wanted to > make "something that has this spoonful of sugar of all the > action and the adventure and all that". He wanted this to > thrill him "as a fan" but also have a conscience "that > maybe in the enjoying of it makes you think a little bit > about the way you interact with nature and your fellow man". > He added that "the Na'vi represent something that is our > higher selves, or our aspirational selves, what we would > like to think we are" and that even though there are good > humans within the film, the humans "represent what we know > to be the parts of ourselves that are trashing our world > and maybe condemning ourselves to a grim future." [snip] Fuck "Kumbayah" and the horse it rode in on. The myth of the Noble Savage at one with nature is just that: a myth. Certainly at least as far as the native peoples of North America are concerned. In addition to practising slavery (some tribes) and living the ideal of Darwinism and Social Darwinism (survival of the fittest taken to the Nth degree), North American aboriginals were far from the caring environmentalists and "stewards of the flora and fauna" that Hollywood and liberals make them out to be. For example, if a plains Indian wanted to munch on some buffalo meat, he didn't think twice about directing a herd of, say, 1,000 bison off a cliff just so he could get a thigh or a leg off of one to bring home for a snack. Want some land to live off of? Why, simply torch a few thousand acres of forest so you can have the convenience of 200 square feet to pitch your teepee. Remember that crying Indian in those public service environmental commercials from the '60s and '70s? Well, the myth of the one-with-nature Indian was as fake as the Indian who appeared in those commercials: he turned out to be an Italian-American from Brooklyn.
