Avatar — the Unknown Message
April 01st, 2011 by Adam Greenwood
I have Avatar, as I should. But a discussion recently made me think that it’s unconsciously not as anti-technology as it appears on the surface. In fact, its real message is not only that technology and and environmentalism are compatible, but that they are necessarily compatible.
Consider. The ideal world of the Navi is enterable only through the high-technology construct of the Avatar. In other words, as John Reilly claims, the function of technology is to recreate the enchanted and organic world of the fairy tale.
Anti-technological environmentalism is a dead end. Technologism that doesn’t help us fulfill the human aspirations that are at the root of environmentalism is also a dead end.
The movie is still drek, though.
