How is it military propaganda? The plot is about a private military contractor destroying an ecosystem for profit, while there is nothing but good things being said about the way of life of the Na’vi.
I don’t understand how this is exactly military propaganda either, but I do see an argument for dichitomy in it.
Imagine living in the middle ages and you crave to read a book that goes against feudalism, especially the theocratic kind, because you know that the system is corrupt but you can’t quite put your finger on it how or offer an alternative, so you’re searching an answer and then you finally find a book that criticizes Christianity, the dominant religion of your area. Hurray! And what does the book contain? Why a praise for a satanic society of course, because ‘that’s what anti-feudalism is all about when you are against a system where the most military crafty person is being regarded as the one sent by god to rule over you.’
In this story, the Na’vi are portrayed as naïve. It’s in the name.
Their society isn’t better in terms of economics without resorting to imperialism, but that they’re “more in contact with nature”, by having a more primitive society.
But because they’re more primitive, they need a big strong human man to protect them and the hottest hottie will fall head over heels for him, bonus points if she previously was the strongest warrior’s girlfriend and he’ll have to endure from sidelines how he gets cuckolded by our insert-All-Anglo-American hero (not sure if that happens in Avatar, I’ve only seen #2)
How is it military propaganda? The plot is about a private military contractor destroying an ecosystem for profit, while there is nothing but good things being said about the way of life of the Na’vi.
But dont worry, there are good apples in the military, and the military paradigm is normal, and everything works out in the end, and you can be a good guy in the military, its fine that your bits get blown off because the military cares, and you can transhumanistically plug yourself in to your living war tech, and be the strongman hero at the head of a hierarchy, and win by being the better warring team, and so on.
But the military doesn’t care. Jake is still in a wheelchair at the start of the movie. Only by accepting a highly dangerous mission, infiltration, is he given the promise of having his old legs restored. And he is only given this job, because his brother passed away and left the Na’vi clone behind. So they are not offering this to any crippled army veteran. And yes, there are some good apples in the military. They turn on the military.
How is it military propaganda? The plot is about a private military contractor destroying an ecosystem for profit, while there is nothing but good things being said about the way of life of the Na’vi.
I don’t understand how this is exactly military propaganda either, but I do see an argument for dichitomy in it.
Imagine living in the middle ages and you crave to read a book that goes against feudalism, especially the theocratic kind, because you know that the system is corrupt but you can’t quite put your finger on it how or offer an alternative, so you’re searching an answer and then you finally find a book that criticizes Christianity, the dominant religion of your area. Hurray! And what does the book contain? Why a praise for a satanic society of course, because ‘that’s what anti-feudalism is all about when you are against a system where the most military crafty person is being regarded as the one sent by god to rule over you.’
In this story, the Na’vi are portrayed as naïve. It’s in the name.
Their society isn’t better in terms of economics without resorting to imperialism, but that they’re “more in contact with nature”, by having a more primitive society.
But because they’re more primitive, they need a big strong human man to protect them and the hottest hottie will fall head over heels for him, bonus points if she previously was the strongest warrior’s girlfriend and he’ll have to endure from sidelines how he gets cuckolded by our insert-All-Anglo-American hero (not sure if that happens in Avatar, I’ve only seen #2)
But dont worry, there are good apples in the military, and the military paradigm is normal, and everything works out in the end, and you can be a good guy in the military, its fine that your bits get blown off because the military cares, and you can transhumanistically plug yourself in to your living war tech, and be the strongman hero at the head of a hierarchy, and win by being the better warring team, and so on.
* plucks first search result about it without looking again * https://recapio.com/digest/the-military-helped-make-avatar-heres-why-that-matters-by-redacted … stuff like that. (probably). And many other reveals of military ties to production, and analysis of the messaging, available with more thorough websearches on the matter.
But the military doesn’t care. Jake is still in a wheelchair at the start of the movie. Only by accepting a highly dangerous mission, infiltration, is he given the promise of having his old legs restored. And he is only given this job, because his brother passed away and left the Na’vi clone behind. So they are not offering this to any crippled army veteran. And yes, there are some good apples in the military. They turn on the military.