posted on Jan, 13 2010 @ 07:29 PM
There is little comparison...
The "native" culture most resembles that of the Native cultures of North America, a genuine tragedy that we did not stop to mix with that culture,
absorb the good it had to offer...
While I recognize the innate truth of "make them your enemy take what you want"
Our current situation offers no real comparison to this movie...
We aren't fighting the peaceful Earth respecting spiritual culture of Native Americans we are fighting against an oppressive religion with a
spirituality that has as far from truth and relative decency as our own had at the time we found the New World, a philosophy that would do with us
what we did to the natives here hundreds of years ago...
This isn't a culture that will evolve into the Navi like the Natives of these lands would have, it's a culture that fails to recognize the spirit in
anything but dogma...
What we fight today...
Is the kind of mentality that behaved as we did to the GREAT cultures of North America.... a HUGE Loss to everyone...
It's simply not the same...
I wouldn't say what we are doing makes us "good guys" but we would be fighting a culture, less spiritual, less intellectual and with far less
tolerance and respect for the planet than we currently have...
This si simply NOT the same as the tragedy that we unfolded on the Natives here...
The American natives were NOT soaking up the Black Blood of the Earth and selling it over seas for massive profits while contributing to the
destruction of the environment...
Now...
If in the Movie Avatar
The Navi had cut their own tree down, started selling the Onobtanium from under it to the highest bidder... turned on their own people, had a
philosophy of oppression of women, were involved deeply in the slave trade that created the Monster we call America in the first place had zero
tolerance for belief and had over time turned their continent into a vast resource less desert that can hardly grow food after thousands of years of
war...
well yeah, then your point would be correct...
Sorry....
NOTHING TO COMPARE
The Female Alien in Avatar... was wonderful and free and living in Nature... like our Native North Americans WE were the bad guys...
Afghanistan?
If her role was based on a woman in Afghanistan...
She'd have been married to an old man, her Clitoris would have been circumcised, she would wear a Mask over her big beautiful face, she wouldn't be
allowed to teach a man anything let alone choose her own mate, nor would she be allowed out of her hut for long to ever live in the woods...
We were DEAD WRONG in regards to the North American natives, that is what this movie is about... we SHOULD have valued THAT culture...
The culture we currently fight?
It sucks worse than our own, they have destroyed the cradle of civilization time and again, they are merchants in death and oil at least as much as we
are and their idea of spirituality is a cage...
There is no comparison...