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Comment by fireguy on March 4, 2010 at 12:54pm

The Gladiators busted their asses to give the Romans "quality entertainment" while the elite enslaved and persecuted the masses. Bread and circuses man, bread and circuses.

Comment by Gilgamesh on March 4, 2010 at 12:47am

Wow, this is great. I mean really great. James Cameron produces the highest internationally grossing movie of all time (for the second time), bringing joy and a temporary escape from the doom and gloom of the real world for millions upon millions, and you criticize him? The movie was great, as are most all of his films. You'd really have to have little to no life to sit around nit-picking someone who busts his ass to give the rest of us quality entertainment.

Comment by fireguy on March 2, 2010 at 2:34pm

I think the movie was a cartoon and has as much to do with reality as Buggs Bunny.

The point of the article is that Cameron spent 500 million making a movie that propagandizes all resource use as evil, while Mr. Cameron and the rest of the greenie rich use more natural resources than anyone else. Kind of like people flying private jets and driving big limos at the Copenhagen global warming hoax conference, or Al Gore living in a huge mansion and flying around the world saying we should not have big houses or drive one type of vehicle or another. The point is the hypocracy of the elite. When James Cameron and Al Gore give up their billions and go and live in caves with no toilet paper I'll listen to their tripe, but till then they are just "haves" trying to get more while telling us to do with less.

We can use the earth's natural resources responsibly and increase the quality of life for everyone. We have the technology. We only need the will.

Comment by Marklar on March 2, 2010 at 2:17am

Sorry but I don't see Avatar as an indictment against mining or technology. Rather I see it as a commentary on imperialism (I need it, I want it, and you have it, therefore give it up or I'll kill you and take it). Truth be told, it's one of the oldest and most frequent stories of human existence. It's not like the story took place in Topeka after all. Nor did the Navi travel light years to Earth in order to hold a sit in on land to which the mining company had legal mineral rights.The company had no rights to the ore under the feet of the troublesome Navi except for the right of conquest and this, I believe, is the point he was trying to make.

Personally I very much doubt you would happily tolerate somebody tearing down your house and drilling for oil where it had stood simply because they had the technical know-how to do so and some thugs with guns as the only justification as to why they can.