Comments on: An ‘Avatar’ Awakening

By: dent

dent — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:25:55 +0000

to the people who are ridiculing the auther of the artical now i say to you that you must be completly oblivious to the point his making or you wouldn’t have been so rash to comment. he’s saying that sheep like you who can show sorrow on three hours for animated characters being opressed but with every day the news will report in afganistan and it doesn’t effect you in the slightest. people are living in afganistan normal people who fear for thier lives as thier small communities are turned to battlegrounds for NATO forces and the taliban if fighting occured outside your home you would call the police to stop the voilence, why can’t you take the time to argue against your goverment to stop the fighting there

By: anti_fascist_freedom_fighter

anti_fascist_freedom_fighter — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:07:19 +0000

BS Clearbrook. Cite your source for such a nonsense fact that 11-1 were killed by the insurgents. Hogwash. The US declined to report how many the US killed, claiming they “don’t do body counts” as a part of their propaganda control of US journalism. They learned from Viet Nam to control the images of death and destruction and to control the images of dead soldiers coming back to the USA – keep it all sanitized for der Heimat!

It’s obvious to anyone who looks into it that America is an empire building militaristic fascist state. The war on terror is a ruse so we can conquer and subjugate every strategic resource-rich nation on earth for the benefit of multi-national corporations. Swanson and Desmonthenes hit it right on the head, and if that upsets your little tummies, well, take some rolaids, turn on Dancing With the Stars, and make yourself a little note to maybe think about it tomorrow.

I’ll give you another one. If Star Wars was a real movie, its the Americans who would be living inside the Deathstar – the wouldn’t be the good guys in white, i.e., Luke Skywalker and Chewie… Those guys would be the Iraquis and the Afghanis… Even our uniforms, and helmets, match that of the Nazis….

I had a building super at a building where I rented an apartment, and she had lived in Germany during the war. “Hitler was a good man! He did a lot of great things for our country! Germany was a very wonderful place to live under Hitler!” Clearbrook, Michelle, and Yoshi are just happy, thoughtless fascist drones, who think our wonderful strong soldiers must be in-the-right, because Ve are Vinning, und das NEWS FROM DAS FRONT is Good, mein comradern!

By: Clearbrook

Clearbrook — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:57:08 +0000

By the way, demosthenes, you need to look who killed your 117,000 non-combantant Iraqis. Gasp! The numbers that you hear on the news fromtime to time are quite clear, although the Liberal Media only wants you to use their numbers for *their* reasons, not the *truth* if it is against them!

Gasp! Insurgents have killed better than 11 to 1 the people reported as civilian causualties. Know I know that some of those casualties killed by americans and officially claimed as direct combatants may not be so. However, if I were to grant you leeway in suggesting that not one of them were truely combatants, then the ratio would fall to around (just shy of) 7 to 1!!! Damn. We are just not doing as good a job as the militant insurgents from Iran, I guess! Yes, they are from Iran (at least some of them are) when they are found with Iranian Currency in their pockets that they can’t use to buy anthing in Iraq with, I tend to think that. Unless they are tourists who just happen to carry and use automatic weapons and RPGs, etc. I’d like to be able to go to Mexico and have fun like that!!!

By: Clearbrook

Clearbrook — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:45:06 +0000

Being Native American, I find the Author here Racially Discriminatory to say that Iraq, Afghanastan, Iran, Yemen or Pakistan are anywhere near the same thing as American Indians! He offends me, deeply! That Indians were used in the French and Indian wars (and only some tribes, mind you, unfortunately ones related to me..) as bloodthristy mercs does not mean that the Jihadists are Like Mercenaries working for a buck and making it bad for their brethren! Nope. They are just plain nuts! Fruit Loops! That we have power and *do* have agendas, (mostly about peace and security — not economic conquest) does not make this the same thing a what happened to *my* people! Although not everything we do overseas is right by a long shot, some of what we do wrong is letting evil prevail where we have the power to do otherwise!

Are we herding Iraqis off to Reservations and telling them that is the only land they have? Are we taking their Holy Land and calling it ours, and they better stay out? Nope. Nope. Do we treat them even half as bad as American Indians were treated (and are still treated today, mind you — it is much better to be black than Indian, for the most part!) and say it was our Destiny to take their land? No Freaking Way!

That Avatar might be a commentary that is worthy of saying we did something wrong might be the intent of the Movie’s Producer or Director. That is fair for them to delude themselves about. However, although I consider what happens in the movie reflects the History of the Indians, I don’t try to stretch it to Iraq and Iran, etc in some hashish dream like the Author of the article has here. Iranians are not Repressed by the US in any way close to the same method in the movie. That connection, although good for wine sipping conversation of the disconnected liberals who have done *nothing* for my people, is of *NO* relevant social value. It is entertainment at best. When it trys to reach that “feel good” place of being “penitent americans” it is so full of it that it stinks like the dead! Go appologise for what you did to *My* People, Jerks!!! You want to be penitent? Give us half of what you gave those who might have been realated to slaves 150 years ago! There were more of US than there *ever* were of the Slaves! We deserve treatment at least as good as they!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:10:01 +0000

You are insane. Really. You need help! The situation in the Middle East is in no way like the situation in Avatar. We are not overtaking coutries over there, or attacking their holy places. I can see how maybe Dances with Wolves was similar in some ways to Avatar but other than that your entire post is a bunch of BS!

By: demosthenes

demosthenes — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:38:45 +0000

Whether or not you disconnect from reality to enjoy the movie as entertainment is irrelevant. The author’s point is that the same Americans — sheep– will blindly follow as our government commits horrible offenses against other nations, including invasion, nation-building, war-mongering, and generally meddling in 177 countries where it is none of our business. Now, if you are one of these moronic sheep who feels your government is morally correct in any of the wars mentioned in this article, then I pity you and your corrupt moral system. What you call “disconnected,” an educated person would call “desensitized.” In the 1990s there was a lot of concern over the amount of violence our children watched, and since we cannot trust American sheep to raise their own children without society’s brand of approval on everything we do, we allowed the FCC and other govt agencies to censor our forms of entertainment like this was Nazi Germany or socialist Soviet Russia under Stalin. The truth is, all americans, regardless of age, are subject to desensitization by media and entertainment, to the point where we no longer value human life or the sanctity of sovreginty. To say that you “disconnect” from reality when you watch a movie is to admit that you are sheep, and that you are desensitized to the point where other human rights, human life, and the right to self-govern are not as important as acheiving paranoid, self-benefitting, xenophobic foreign policy goals designed to keep the top 4% of earth’s population consuming 27% of its natural resources and 34% of its wealth. The truly sad part is that any sheep can sit there and watch this movie without allowing themselves to assimilate its message and apply it to real-world situations. It should smack of the injustices caused by the American military abroad, and should ring true to anyone who has served: we ARE the global bad guys. Whether or not you enjoy yourself at the movie, please remember that such horrors do occur in real life and that your tax dollars are supporting the deaths and removal of rights of millions of foreigners in 177 different sovreign nations we have a permanent military presence in. I’ll be Mr. Yoshi up there claims that Schindler’s List didn’t remind him of the holocaust and make him feel for the victims. Typical sheep response. Go pay your blood money in taxes so you can support killing Iraqi children, and when you shell out $7.50 to see this in theatre, remember that real life is generally reflected in our art forms, such as cinema, and please remember the 117,000 non-combantant Iraqis killed so far by “real American heroes.” Since terrorism is defined by Oxford English Dictionary as “use of force or threat of force to coerce a population or government into meeting our demands,” it should be noted that the American military is, in effect, the largest, best-funded, and most-murderous terrorist organization in the world– backed by your self-righteous, xenophobic, irreverant American government. Take a message from this movie, and help the generation of our progeny to live in a better world than Avatar.

By: mcthorogood

mcthorogood — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:57:32 +0000

I agree that its sad you can’t disconnect from reality and just enjoy yourself. The really sad part is that the majority of Americans are permanently disconnected from reality and live out their lives in a hyper-reality of knownothingness. Go and enjoy your movie.

By: yoshi

yoshi — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:58:35 +0000

Its sad that you cannot disconnect from the world long enough to just enjoy a movie and that that you feel the need to project your ideology into everything that you see and ruin an entertainment experience for a group of people . If you yelled “and get out of Iraq too” in the theatre I was saw the movie in I wouldn’t of called you an traitor – I would of called you an idiot.