Mustang Rambles

Here is a guest blog on the CNN review of AVATAR:

I just read the article on CNN about the post-Avatar blues -

I vomited on my keyboard.

Then I searched for my razor blade so I can slit my wrists…not because
the movie depressed me, but because the article did…in so many ways.

I wonder if I could start an internet-thingy like they did where all of
us who are depressed about the article can express our emotions and rue
this horrible planet we live on and hope that the heaven we are so
proactively racing toward is a little like Pandora.

Because, as everyone knows, I was not introduced to literature in
school. I never read Ray Bradbury or Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke or
Edgar Allen Poe. I never saw a movie about a more beautiful place and
how horrible this place is, because there just aren’t any about
post-destruction society movies or places portrayed in movies that are
more beautiful than ours. Until Avatar, there was no Star Wars, Star
Trek, Twilight Zone, Contact, Battlestar Gallactica, The Time Machine,
Back to the Future, Silent Running, Superman, Amazing Stories, Space
1999, etc. (And that’s just off the top of my head.)

Because Avatar was the first movie EVER to offer a fantasized glimpse
into another world, and the first ever to have a
boy-meets-girl-boy-gets-girl-boy-loses-girl-boy-gets-girl-in-the-end
type of message, and it was also the first movie about redemption I have
ever seen.

It was also the first fantasy/sci-fi/action/adventure movie I have ever
seen, and I am CERTAIN that never before has any movie ever had a direct
or indirect comment on how we are wasting our planet’s resources and/or
forcibly taking someone else’s and I am sure that whatever similarities
exist between Avatar and what happened RIGHT HERE with Native Americans
must be a complete figment of my imagination, or a lie, much like the
Holocaust.

No wonder these kids were moved to depression - it’s because the movie
was so ground breaking story-wise and what it says about all of us and
all of our ideals. It blazed a new trail with the message! And here I
thought it was just nice to look at and, after all, just…

A PRETTY COOL MOVIE!

Silly me. I guess my attitude explains why I can separate fantasy from
reality and why I am moderately successful in the things I pursue. But,
there I go again…sorry…I’m going to stop working now and see if
there are any post-Avatar support groups on the net and/or any Na’vi
groups I can join…

Well said, thank you.
Our youth are not well educated, they are, however, well-indoctrinated, as their response to the movie indicates.