Movie Paranoia for Conservatives

What does it say about the people of America when they lose their composure over the imagined political views of a movie? Honestly, it does not speak very well of the mentality of our Nation.

A Google search of "Avatar's political tone" results in over 870,000 links. It is simply mind boggling that so many disgruntled people would not find something more worthwhile to be concerned over.

"Avatar" is a film made for our entertainment, nothing more. Even so, many Americans are calling this film a "Liberal Plot".

Come again?

"Pandora" is a fictional place. It's people are also fictional. Unfortunately, the reasons they are invaded has happened repeatedly within American history. It also happens to be a fact that we have a tendency to waste our resources and treat war as an acceptable way of taking what we want from those weaker than us. I do not understand how the movie "Avatar" can be a "liberal" anything if it is based on a fictional place and fictional people mixed in with human, including American, historical behavior.

Many moons ago...the conservative factions of the U.S. wrote history contrary to what actually happened, on several occasions, in fact. Pocahontas was a very good example. I grew up reading in history books how Pocahontas and her people were saved by a white man, when in fact, Pocahontas and her people saved the white settlers from certain death. This story was not fiction, nor was the place, yet history was written to suit those who had no use for the indigenous people of what is now America and the conservative politicians had no problem with the idea of killing them all. There were many who saw no good reason in exterminating the Native Americans and many were treated as traitors for not wanting to murder them. Yet we did murder them, take their children from them and try to "teach" the Indian out of them, steal their land and other atrocities. That was not liberalism that caused such devastation, nor was liberalism to blame for the attempt to rewrite history to make the white men look like the good guys.

There has been banter thrown about that "Avatar" also includes racist undercurrents. This has to be one of the silliest things I have ever heard. Using the example of Pocahontas again, the conservative rewrite of history proclaimed the white man to be the savior of the Native People...how does that compare with "Avatar"? Fictional people and place versus actual history rewritten to suit the white men in power...hmmm. It is not unfair to say that many whites sympathized with the Natives and were condemned because of it, therefore it is not unimaginable that an American would find fault in an invasion of "Pandora" and try to help the Natives. The only thing that could possibly be construed as "racist" would be an individuals small mind trying to find an excuse for what the human race has been guilty of.

Why would it be a bad thing to take care of our environment? Would it not be a good idea not to pollute the air we breathe or the water that is so vital for our survival? When you consider that the number of smokers that die from cancer is not a great deal higher than the numbers of non - smokers who die from cancer, should we not be concerned? I, for one, would like to know what the Conservatives intend to do when our air and water supplies are so polluted that they cause us as much, if not more, damage as they claim for cigarette smoke. I lived in Wayne County, Tennessee for several years and everyone I knew that moved there from elsewhere ended up contracting some kind of ailment from brain tumors to folliculitus. A doctor in the next county told me that there was something wrong with the water there. Shortly after being told this, I found out that at least one severe case of toxic waste dumping had happened there before. Corporate greed was more important than the environment and many people still suffer for it more than twenty (20) years later. Polluting an aquifer that thousands of people rely on daily is unforgivable. Health care costs rises and the burden on the system is irreversible.

What gives anyone the right to invade someone else's home in order to take what they have just because we think we are entitled and they are not? We have done just that...many times. Most countries on our planet have done this. Great Empires of the World have not lasted very long and they fell because they had a bad habit of depleting the resources available to them and ran out of people too weak to conquer. We stole the land that belonged to the Native Americans. We stole land that belonged to Mexico and we have claimed other territory that belonged to other people. America went nuts over the idea that Saddam Hussein tried to take Kuwait. We seem to be a "do as I say, not as I do" Nation.

You do not need to be a "Liberal" to know that we have things in our country's past that we have no right to be proud of. Americans also need to get over the sense of entitlement that many of us carry like a chip on our shoulders. We are not entitled to anything because of wealth, power, muscle or any "God".

Those who would happily divide our country over religion, race, greed, politics or power are the ones who can consider themselves to be "Un - American". America was built on principles that are better that any of that and those who look for an argument just to argue are the ones who need a serious reality check.

If "Avatar" is not your cup of tea, do not spend your money to watch it, it is that simple. Stop trying to make it a bad experience for the rest of us.