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Posted on 01/26/2010 9:52:35 PM PST by UAConservative
If you want non-realism, I'd suggest Starship Troopers, in which intelligent insects on the far side of the galaxy physically hurl a meteor at us and it hits South America a couple of weeks or months later.
don't support hollyweird and spend your dollars to support that shiite!
That’s exactly the author’s contention. It’s a property rights issue because it’s the property owners vs. outsiders who want to take the land against their will, so as a conservative you should be cheering for the Navi.
So I should have cheered for the Indians when the settlers backed by the cavalry "invaded" their territories in the previous centuries? Should I also have wished that Europeans never set foot on American(?) soil?
According to the author, yes.
“She was unreasonable too, like the Na’vi: She wasn’t holding out for a better price; she just didn’t want to sell her house.”
Does the author actually believe that it is “unreasonable” to not want to sell ones home?
That struck me to, but then I was thinking maybe by “unreasonable” he meant “non-negotiable”. I certainly hope he didn’t mean it literally. What a tool he’d have to be.
The bad guy general in AVATAR was definitely a Wesley Clark clone. He only bombed the good guys...
Again, the dual fan gunships in Avatar looked like they’d work.
The history of mankind is groups of armed people invading other peoples territories and doing some good things and some bad things. It's the same with the Indians of the Americas. They did the same thing to other Indian tribes that the Europeans, Asians, and Africans did to other tribes/peoples. Does Cameron suggest everybody should go back to where they started? Which would be Africa. Things would get a mite crowded.
Yeah, I understand that. It’s basically how I teach white/Indian relations in the west. If there ARE property rights, then it’s a violation . . . but if it’s a communal “we are the world” thing, you’re right.
Any time I hear the phrase Eminent Domain I think of Burt Gummer, he has the right attitude IMHO.
Well, he sure failed to make a convincing connection to reality. Guess its a problem for a left wingers to use fantasy to portray their absurd views of western imperialism. Because its fantasy, they can't make the connection explicit. Thus the connection is only valid in the minds of the left wingers. Yes the rest of us can see the connection that they are trying to make, but most of us are tired of paying attention to that aspect of Hollywood entertainment.
The way M*A*S*H explicitly portrayed a conservative arch type as "Frank Burns" was much more effective propaganda-wise.
The answer is to debate the left openly. They hate that.
My guess is that kind of question would make him feel dumb. Thus not wanting to feel that way, he would assume you are the dumb one, tell you so, and openly disbelieve whatever information you might use to back up your point.
Its the usual pattern when you deal with people who cling to a world view for social reasons rather than an honest desire to know the truth.
Escapism would be a more apt term; with the ubiquitous game boxes and software now at ones fingertips, it is way too easy to leave the real world; just hook us up to supply and waste lines and peace will reign as long as the power holds out.
Yes I did watch the movie. No I did not attend a political evern. I’m sorry you put yourself in that position.
I was saying that the author of the article basically believed in the hypothetical you posed. Not saying that’s what Cameron, the movie’s director, is trying to say. I tend to think most people’s read that Cameron intended the piece as anti-Western, anti-American, anti-technology, anti-exploitation, etc, is probably correct, based in part on the man’s own words.
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