… and I know it had a happy ending and all but I couldn’t help feeling sad after. I’m not sure what it was. Maybe the ending of the movie and leaving the cinema felt allegorical to returning to the reality of how we live our lives. I know there have been reported cases of depression and even contemplation of suicide – holy crap, I could possibly be, to a lesser extent, one of these people… but not because I’m sad that Pandora doesn’t actually exist but because of the realisation of how we currently exist in our world.
Those who have seen it should know what I’m talking about. For me, this movie illustrated the gaping hole left by a lack of spirituality in today’s society and the absence of a genuine connection to the earth that sustains us. I can’t speak for all the ages, but I feel like we’re living in perhaps one of the emptiest of times where everything is driven by economics and is raped and pillaged until there is nothing left. What for, but to provide fulfillment that we are only capable of feeling, these days, from (/in) the acquisition of material things. I can’t say I’m not guilty of this, because let’s face it, we all are. Most, if not all, of us were born into this sense of entitlement that all but comes naturally to us now and with an insatiable need for more without knowing or even considering where it all comes from. I bet 90% of us these days don’t even know where the food we eat comes from or the process it undergoes before it ends up on our plates. I sure don’t. What the fuck are maltodextrin and emulsifiers? They don’t sound like anything that belongs in our bodies.
I truly feel we’re not living on this earth as it was intended. Sure, we probably think we have advanced as a people with technology that allows us to communicate instantaneously with people on the other side of the planet but we’ve probably never been more out of touch. TVs and computers are keeping us from exercising as are fast food outlets and cars. Obesity is rife and I’ve seen people so overweight they can’t even walk. What gives, man? These people would have been born with two legs. Legs I’m sure they were meant to use for walking and running (hunting and gathering?) instead of as a support for TV dinners while being confined to an electric wheelchair. All these creature comforts that have been designed to better our lives are probably only deteriorating them and destroying the earth that we expect to sustain us. We can’t live without water. Or trees. Or the grass that feeds the animals that we eat. There was once a time when humans hunted for their food and ate it within hours of catching it. And I’m sure back then, that life was about more than how big your house is, what car you drive, whether you have an iPhone or what handbag you carry on your arm.
I’m not so sure that we’re actually evolving and the worst part about it all is that I don’t feel like I can do anything about it because I’ve been born into it. While I have made a personal decision to be less wasteful and more respectful about our surrounds, God knows I wouldn’t be able to survive in the wild in just a loin cloth and without air conditioning. We are just too sheltered now.
Did you know that the extra melanin in darker-skinned people acts as a natural form of sunscreen? Oh the irony of the silly white man who, throughout history, set out to take what was not theirs and assert ’superiority’ over the natives. Light skin is actually a watered down version of what we’re supposed to be.
I'm pretty sure this is closer to what we're supposed to look like... hunting, gathering, living amongst our surrounds...
... Not this.
Wake up, people. We can’t afford to be as ‘deserving’ as we have been.
