Why is there a PAD?

[Tsyal Makto]

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.