The War Against Humans

This is just a quick prompt (and somehow apropos for my first post of the year) in case any reader has not read Avatar: The War Against Humans over at neo-neocon. It's a great read with interesting comments, one of which was picked up by Gerard Van der Leun at American Digest. Van der Leun was struck by neo-neocon commenter Jim Sullivan and it's no wonder why. Wow, what a list Sully!

• It's OK to kill things as long as you use a bow and arrow and not a gun or missile.
  
• Teh Interwebz au Naturale of the Allmother (or whatever the f*** the Giganto-smurfs called her) beats the technology of a species that has harvested the power of the atom, is capable of celestial travel, and has armored the unholy f*** out of everything. Also:
  
• It's a much better way to call up your bizarro world rhino and pterodactyl allies (the ones that previously wanted to eat you) than a Tarzan call or a Conch shell. But, you still have to send the Dire-pony express to the Four Corners of the world to rally the tribes.
  
• Soldiers are bad unless they are A) not Caucasian or B) handi-capped. All other soldiers are A) psychopaths B) mindless myrmidons or C) nameless cannon fodder (or in this case arrow fodder)
  
• Even shallow, selfish, homicidal savages are good because they're savages and therefore inherently and unquestionably noble.
  
• The best way for primitive screw-heads to fight off a technologically superior, militarily sophisticated force is to fight the superior force on their terms. Asymmetric strategy, insurgent tactics and guerrilla warfare couldn't possibly even the odds. Not in a million years.
  
• All scientists are compassionate and resent the very soldiers prepared to die to protect them. This is completely reasonable and in no way intellectually dishonest. Hollywood decrees it!
  
• Subjugating other species is wrong -- unless you are able to have mind-blowing ponytail intercourse and biologically hack into their brain. Then it's OK.
  
• When you encounter a new mineral that floats and causes whole mountain ranges to float, the coolest, catchiest, most marketable name for it is Unobtainium. After you succeed in mining it, it semantically transforms,a la magma/lava, into HaHaHa!I'sAllMine-ite.
  
• When the nobly savage Giganto-smurfs, the Emo-scientists and their Land-networked planetary defense menagerie evict the eeevil military-capitalist Gestapo from their idyllic floating mountain paradise back to their ecologically dead world, the nature frolickers all live happily ever after. There's no chance in hell that those same military-capitalists will return with a full blown invasion fleet. Never happen. Hollywood decrees it!

Yowzah!

Comments

[vanderleun]

Hey, thanks for the link. It's a great list, isn't it?

[RattlerGator]

I love to find gems like that, Gerard. You're on quite a roll, too. Keep up the good work.

[Gary Herring]

Excellent list. May I propose the following additions? (I admit, I haven't seen the movie. I therefore pose these as questions.)

1. Did anyone in this star-faring civilization think to deploy remote-controlled drones or robots to do their fighting for them?

2. Did it ever occur to the star-faring civilization to use their position in orbit to full advantage? Why wouldn't non-nuclear kinetic energy weapons finish the fight PDQ.

3. Did any of the humans even consider the possibility of using drones to attach boosters to the floating mountains full of unobtainium and lifting them to orbit where they could be mined without dealing with any native life at all?