After having seen a truly scintillating and visually orgasmic (so much so, in fact, that I developed a headache) IMAX 3D presentation of James Cameron’s Avatar, I began to put together a pattern emerging, to me anyway, in works of popular art and literature. Avatar and another contributor to this pattern, Disney-Pixar’s Wall·E, are generally straightforward in packing their punch.
Humans are evil — regardless of their intentions, malign or not — and more than likely will end up destroying or depleting themselves and their resources.
I’m not really trying at verbose criticism, but why do we indulge in constructing massive, ever-more-awesome narratives to apologize for ourselves, our wars, our destruction, our sad state of existence? These and other stories are chillingly beautiful and evoke strong emotions, so I understand the appeal. The apologetics are just stupefyingly idiotic — that we might redeem our blight on the Earth through artistic acknowledgment. Let’s at least do something about our innumerable crises in addition to nostalgically memorializing them, please? Kthxbai.
After having seen a truly scintillating and visually orgasmic (so much so, in fact, that I developed a headache) IMAX 3D presentation of James Cameron’s Avatar, I began to put together a pattern emerging, to me anyway, in works of popular art and literature. Avatar and another contributor to this pattern, Disney-Pixar’s Wall·E, are generally straightforward in packing their punch.
Humans are evil — regardless of their intentions, malign or not — and more than likely will end up destroying or depleting themselves and their resources.
I’m not really trying at verbose criticism, but why do we indulge in constructing massive, ever-more-awesome narratives to apologize for ourselves, our wars, our destruction, our sad state of existence? These and other stories are chillingly beautiful and evoke strong emotions, so I understand the appeal. The apologetics are just stupefyingly idiotic — that we might redeem our blight on the Earth through artistic acknowledgment. Let’s at least do something about our innumerable crises in addition to nostalgically memorializing them, please? Kthxbai.