Is This The Draw Of Pandora?

[Tsyal Makto]

Of course.

[fkeua vrrtep]

[QUOTE=Tsyal Makto;77954]

I agree with a lot that has been mentioned in this thread. Indeed, one of the biggest draws to Pandora is the excitement/existential aspects of living there. There, you actually need to physically do things to survive and thrive. Here, everything is pre-packaged and refined, and all you need to do to get things is hand a shiny coin or piece of paper to the merchant behind the counter, or slip it into a machine. Sure, living inside a concrete and steel, climate-controlled block, and looking at a screen all day might be comfier (and safer), but when do you ever see the direct fruits of your labor? Plus, with this way of life, you consume and work your life away. On Earth, most of each day is spent doing a job or going to school, which leads to so much unnecessary stress, frustration, and complication. On Pandora, on the other hand, most of each day is spent outside, free, hunting, fishing, communing with others, riding Pa'li, or flying on Ikran. We can do that here, just replace Pa'li with horse, and Ikran with hang glider, but the thing is, we don't. Why not?

Exactly , agreed on everything you said there ,specially the ting with enjoying the fruits of your labor , you don't have that anymore in our society , everything is already "done" , it's cold and doesn't have any emotion in it.

And I do not fear giving up safety for the sake of freedom and excitement, as I too would give it all up for Pandora if given the chance. I value nothing more than I do my freedom. It is something I am willing to suffer or die for if I had to, and I think the fact that a lot of people are not willing to sacrifice for their freedom is a reason we are in the s***hole we are in. Nobody's going to protect your freedom for you, you have to fight for it yourself

Exactly , freedom is everything that counts , and a human without freedom is only a shadow of himself.

And I'm kind of going through that "what do we do now?" thing, now. I've seen something better, something I would be willing to give up everything for, and it's made my current way of life seen miserable (nearing unbearable), but at the same time, modern humans have been made biologically inferior (read "Manthropology," it's a real eye opener), and I don't know if I could physically handle living the way our ancestors/the Na'vi lived/live. And it seems we are just getting progressively weaker with each generation (case in point, overparenting and fear of germs) So indeed, what do we do know...?

Agreed , mankind is getting weaker with every generation , the easy access to resources and the use of DNA altering chemicals etc. run deep .

And yes, the bioluminesence has a large part to do with it, too, even symbolically. See, we're always taught that the world is a dark, cold, cruel place, and the dark nights of Earth, contrasting with the naturally lit nights of Pandora help push the image home that Pandora is inherently a light, warm, loving place, while Earth has been rendered, as previously mentioned, dark, cold, and cruel.

Yes , but is it worth trying to make it shine again , I don't think the majority of people deserve to live in a better place/world because they built their golden cages and they decided to live in them , that's the way they wanted it , and I guess so will and shall it be until the end , at least for most of the people living on this planet , but in the end every single one of them will regret it to have lived a simply wasted life .

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That, too. I mean, I can replicate (to a degree) some things from Pandora on Earth, such as a treehouse as a Hometree, or a hang glider for an Ikran, but there's no way to replicate the Na'vi themselves. I still find myself physically attracted to them, and would give anything to be one, even on Earth. Everything...skin...tail...queue...nose...ears.... ..

We are masters if replicating , some day we will replicate ourselves and our environment because it witheres by our mere existance , but replications with stay replications ,you can never come to closer than the original and the feeling it creates , the feeling of rightness .

[hostergaard]

Originally Posted by ZenitYerkes

That, or simply the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Perhaps one day you could get tired of hunting every day to feed your family, tired of gathering food and spend the whole evening to just do the same the next day,...

I actually read somewhere that hunter\gatherer cultures only had to work two days a week. It seems they had a lot of time for socializing...

[Human No More]

Yeah, I read something similar before, that overall it was only a few hours per day... It seems that in this 'society', people are having to work more and more just to survive...