Re: Avatar article - who wants to fight me?
i'm an optimistic person and it's kinda fun to spar... so i'll continue to bite here.
this may sound peculiar in this day and age, but i put my faith, interest and endless fascination… in people.
no matter who people are, where they are, whatever they are doing… they are still just people. visceral beings with basic immutable desires, wants, needs, and goals. it's been that way for about 10 million years... caveman needed fire, et voila! he was roasting a toothy dinosaur over a rustic barbeque pit. then, he discovered spices and “hmmm, those tasted good when he combined them”, et voila!, we had the birth of cuisine. okay, i sorta skipped a few million years but you get the point...
fairytales aren’t deep on the surface, but what makes them deep is our human desire to understand and make sense of things around us. we dig into them to find explanations. what they convey makes them relevant. but, that relevance is also generally dependent on the timeliness of the message. a fairytale is relevant in the age of a child, but an adult may find it simplistic, etc. however, age isn't just determined by focusing on one individual, but rather an entire community, a race, a species, etc.
for all the information we’ve learned and absorbed since the caveman-dude, i believe we’re in a human recession of sentient understanding. we can pull up the most inconsequential, yet scientifically staggering information with a click of a button – but, we’ve forgotten how to relate to our fellow man in a significant and tangible way.
so was avatar particularly ground-breaking in its concept of save the environment and message that we should learn to connect with people? 20 years ago, i would have said no... we already trod that path and it was well worn.
but today?
i think we’ve made this fairytale highly relevant due to the information-accessible world we have created and the concurrent retreat from human contact that we’ve been thriving in.
so, the article pointed out the connections within scenes, leads to a fully developed theme about connections among groups and what is fragile among them. for myself, i think that's relevant and timely.
i'm an optimistic person and it's kinda fun to spar... so i'll continue to bite here.
this may sound peculiar in this day and age, but i put my faith, interest and endless fascination… in people.
no matter who people are, where they are, whatever they are doing… they are still just people. visceral beings with basic immutable desires, wants, needs, and goals. it's been that way for about 10 million years... caveman needed fire, et voila! he was roasting a toothy dinosaur over a rustic barbeque pit. then, he discovered spices and “hmmm, those tasted good when he combined them”, et voila!, we had the birth of cuisine. okay, i sorta skipped a few million years but you get the point...
fairytales aren’t deep on the surface, but what makes them deep is our human desire to understand and make sense of things around us. we dig into them to find explanations. what they convey makes them relevant. but, that relevance is also generally dependent on the timeliness of the message. a fairytale is relevant in the age of a child, but an adult may find it simplistic, etc. however, age isn't just determined by focusing on one individual, but rather an entire community, a race, a species, etc.
for all the information we’ve learned and absorbed since the caveman-dude, i believe we’re in a human recession of sentient understanding. we can pull up the most inconsequential, yet scientifically staggering information with a click of a button – but, we’ve forgotten how to relate to our fellow man in a significant and tangible way.
so was avatar particularly ground-breaking in its concept of save the environment and message that we should learn to connect with people? 20 years ago, i would have said no... we already trod that path and it was well worn.
but today?
i think we’ve made this fairytale highly relevant due to the information-accessible world we have created and the concurrent retreat from human contact that we’ve been thriving in.
so, the article pointed out the connections within scenes, leads to a fully developed theme about connections among groups and what is fragile among them. for myself, i think that's relevant and timely.
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