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)
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)