RE: Suicide fantasy in Avatar?
December 30, 2009 at 3:57 am
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2009 at 3:58 am by Violet.)
Living in the bushes does not amoral make...
I disagree that a society can't be 'honorable?' and at the same time live without advanced technology (or whatever a non-savage is, unless they are by definition not honorable, and then what the hell is a noble savage? lol). Case in point would be ideals the like of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghandi .
What is a savage, anyway? I've always thought that savage meant a combination of 'vicious' and 'hostile'... but to me this applies to peoples of any technological or social progression. What exactly do we mean by 'savage'?
And what do we mean by 'noble' in this case as well...? Honor is subjective, and which definition are we using? All of this has to be on the table if we are to understand why a 'noble savage?' is a fallacy.
I disagree that a society can't be 'honorable?' and at the same time live without advanced technology (or whatever a non-savage is, unless they are by definition not honorable, and then what the hell is a noble savage? lol). Case in point would be ideals the like of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghandi .
What is a savage, anyway? I've always thought that savage meant a combination of 'vicious' and 'hostile'... but to me this applies to peoples of any technological or social progression. What exactly do we mean by 'savage'?
And what do we mean by 'noble' in this case as well...? Honor is subjective, and which definition are we using? All of this has to be on the table if we are to understand why a 'noble savage?' is a fallacy.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
