Tree of Souls - An Avatar Community Forum - P.A.D. In world history class

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Originally Posted by Rainbowhawk1993 (Post 38449)

After I saw avatar and went Back to school I Started having Post Avatar Depression when I had world history class.
I saw how Violent and distructive recent humen history has been.
The main points:
The industral revolution- how human Greed became clear.
Imperalisum- How countries begain to encrouch and hurt the other nations for their own gain.
The World Wars- The killing of many people for gain of land and so much Hate.

When I have P.A.D, I just stare and sigh and think to myself.
"Why be on Earth and not Pandora?"

Your feelings seem pretty understandable. When you take reality and compare it to a world like Pandora, the negatives seem to be even more apparent. As our societies have grown larger, the relationships between individuals within society changed. The Na'vi seem to consist of small societies of around 500 individuals. Drawing parallels to human societies of the same size, the interactions between individuals seemed rather similar. Behavior detrimental to society is taken very seriously because the society is at risk of collapsing, where as larger societies don't face as large a risk due to the actions of an individual. What would have been interesting would be to see how Na'vi societies interacted with each other (sorry for the digression).