Avatar, the highest grossing movie of all time, is a decent example off the top of my head. If you saw it you may recall the grizzled hardass villain trampling upon the poor indigenes and their quaint way of life in service to corporate greed. The (disabled) protagonist goes native and must defeat the militant, imperialistic, evil whites humans with the help of a diverse band of his fellow turncoats, scientists (I fcking love science btw), and tall blue niggas that probably smoke a lot of grass and get along really well with animals and shit. Our hero naturally faces additional adversity from the warrior class of tall blue niggas, who take umbrage at an outsider culturally enriching their princess like the bigoted jarheads they are. These are tropes you often see repeated, no? In science-fiction and fantasy, aren't military organizations usually depicted as backwards, incompetent, overreaching? War films sometimes glorify their subject matter but I can think of more that focus on depravity and pacifist messaging than otherwise. These are the depictions that people like Archibot enjoy, and by reinforcing them a movie studio can make something culturally relevant (maybe even woke) that talking heads will write about and encourage people to see. I have no problem* with any of this by the way, I don't watch movies often and even many of the few I like are decidedly anti-war or anti-military in tone, I just think media more often portrays military matters negatively than positively.
Entertainment media being such a huge part of the way people understand the world and conceptualize real-life situations is what I find unfortunate.
*I wrote a blog post a while ago about why I fucking hate movies, because this is what it does, it appeals to, like, the liberal fantasy
ah, i getcha. point taken; makes me wonder if the script/plot was focus-grouped to tap into that cultural zeitgest in order to rake in those bucks or if they just decided to hatchet-job Pocahantas' tale because lol why not thats easy and HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THE MONEY WE ARE MAKING
off-topic, but you might really enjoy this book. if you've ever read Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein it is similar. a lot of realistic lampooning of "disability acceptance" and other social justice movements in addition to the lovely space ancap fever dream fantasy
https://www.amazon.com/Powers-Earth-Aristillus-Book-ebook/dp/B005JPPMS6furthermore Sam Hyde is, as always, very prescient:
skip to 6:00 if you'd like. "The west’s sick addiction to fossil fuel ss going to make this planet uninhabitable for the future generations. Uhh. You’ll know what I’m talking about if you’ve seen the movie “An Inconvenient Truth”. It’s essentially what’s going on is we’re too selfish, and we’re driving our cars too much, and that’s getting nature out of the picture.
Now we looked at the data, we looked at the data, and what we found surprised us. What we found, right there, what we found was that culture is a sewer. We’ve got lewd media. We’ve got nasty bedroom things on TV. And they’re sexualizing young girls, and it’s getting to the point where even I have a problem with it. And that, it shouldn’t be that way.Folks, we’re all world citizens. Is there another…? There we go. We’re all world citizens, living together, with one social contract, one economic future, we’re all tied together. There’s no more individual anymore, it’s just the hive. So we have to stick together. We have to stick together, and learn how to share. We have to learn how to share.Now studies show that we work hard. It’s true. Everybody in this room’s a hard worker. You’re a hard worker, you’re a hard worker, you’re a hard worker. I know cuz you’re here, okay? But studies show that we don’t play hard enough. We gotta play harder! It’s, because "it’s that sense of childlike playing, ehh, that’s gonna save us in the end"- Albert Einstein.
