|
|
#16
06-19-2010, 12:10 AM
|
||||
|
||||
I don't know about anyone else, but the Na'vi themselves were my main reason for PAD. I know the Earth is just as incredible as Pandora, just not the bipedal, sentient mammals that inhabit it. Even on Earth, I would become a Na'vi if I could. To be able to run and jump and climb like they do would be just so incredible. And the queue, it's just so incredible - to be able to physically become one with your mate, to be able to literally see what they see, feel that they feel, experience a level of intimacy unknown to humans. OMG...
 And it was (is) also an existential depression. The Na'vi live such simple, care-free, joyous lives. They have no economy, they have no government, no 9-5 jobs, no unnecessary stress, why can't we do that here? I don't want to be another sheeple, consumerist, desk monkey working for the man, like most of the world will inevitably end up being. I want to do something greater, and live my life guided by my heart and soul, like the Na'vi do. This whole modern, consumerist lifestyle makes me feel so emasculated. I play no role in the things that I live on, all I do is plop down some green paper in front of somebody and the item is handed to me. It makes me feel so weak, like I'm not a real man. Na'vi men on the other hand are hunters, gatherers, or artisans. Their efforts make a tangible benefit for the clan. Here I feel so useless and expendable. Plus their other physical features are pretty cool to, I'd rather be a tall, strong, blue Na'vi than a short, weak, white guy. 
__________________
 The Dreamer's Manifesto Mike Malloy, a voice of reason in a world gone mad. "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." - Inception "Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." - Tyler Durden 
|
|
|
Threaded Mode