simple things amuse simple minds
Avatar is now the world’s most successful film, earning over 1 billion US dollars in global box office revenue. I think this is due to the fact that this film feeds us delicious poison. It is like a drug and we are addicts. We crave reassurance of our gluttonous, selfish and simple minded lives. We like to think of ourselves as one of the kind, lovely blue alien people. But in truth, we are more like the film’s “villains.” As often as we try to sell and fool ourselves into thinking we are such righteous, natural, good, civil creatures like the blue alien people of Avatar, we are actually nothing more than the voracious, barbaric villains. We are like the “villains” of Avatar, but what’s even worse is that we won’t admit it. We are the delusional wrongdoers. We are right, but only in our own minds.
I love Avatar!
All my friends love Avatar! Some of them even pay for it!
I have watched Avatar so many times now! It’s great!
Who does not support and defend the lovely and kind blue alien people of Avatar?! Those people love nature and love their homeland and love their families. They are just like me! I love nature and my homeland and my family. I am just like the lovely and kind blue alien people! My family is just like them! It’s so cool!
Look dad, we’re just like them! See the lovely and kind blue alien people! Natural and harmonious and without energy needs. They’re like us!
(And then comes the big, bad US soldiers to tear down the lovely and kind blue alien peoples’ home tree for an energy supply.)
Boo! I don’t like you US soldier! You are not kind or lovely! Invading the lovely and kind blue alien people is neither harmonious nor friendly. You are interfering! And why do you invade these lovely and kind blue alien people who live in the pretty glow in the dark alien jungle? You are invading them for fuel? For limited resource?
Really?
Oh, well, that’s not OK. My family and me are like the lovely and kind blue alien people of Avatar, but we don’t need limited natural resources like fossil fuels. We don’t need those things, and we don’t befriend foreign nations that we secretly hate because we have such a grossly large population and have no choice. My family and me are like the lovely and kind blue alien people. We are just like them. Kind and lovely. We love nature and our homeland and our family. We are simple like the kind and lovely blue alien people.
The car my family drove to watch the Avatar film does not use fuel. The lights and power needed to show this film, or the air-conditioning in the theater, does not need fuel. My obligation to have new children (and not adopt a child) does not create even more demand on our limited fuels. My contribution to increasing world population will not cause people to behave more aggressively to obtain limited fuels. What I do never affects other people in an inharmonious way. We’re a simple people!
Bad US soldiers who are aggressively seeking that fuel source. You are so bad! I am so lucky I do not understand that bad behavior and I am not bad like you. My family and my people are like the lovely and kind blue alien people. Yes, I believe that. I close my eyes and I believe that. If you make a film that is 3D, I believe anything.
Hooray for the lovely and kind blue alien people!
Hooray for simple!
Simple like me.
:)rickymay