"Avatar"
This winter, I saw the movie Avatar in theaters. I hate SciFi movies, and didn’t expect to take this one seriously. However, it had a profound impact on me. I believe it displayed how violent and arrogant our country can be and how many have forgotten the important things in life. I believe that our earth, when first created, resembled something as wondrous as the world of the avatars. Maybe islands didn’t float in the air and maybe dragons weren’t used as methods of transportation, but I believe the first humans lived in harmony with nature I believe this is the way things should be. Earlier this year in my Sociology class, I heard a statistic that has stuck with me since: For the first 90,000 years humans walked the earth, we lived as hunters and gatherers. Only 10,000 years ago did we begin to develop some sort of agriculture. Since then, industrialism has taken over and we no longer “live in the hands of the Gods” as Daniel Quinn puts it. It saddens me to think that the majority of our natural world has been destroyed, but I hope that one day things will change. The perfect relationship between the creatures in Avatar and their habitat makes me question what the afterlife will be like. Will we have earthly surroundings? Or something infinitely better and more beautiful? My mind cannot begin to fathom its perfection.
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