Hi.
Years ago, I learned that identity is being modeled by the society one lives in. - At least this is what they teach us. ("My cup is empty. Trust me. Just ask Dr. Augustine. I’m no scientist." -Jake in Avatar 1)
How far Technology and Science can influence: humanity and its fractals - gender, spirituality, military forces, social and political up to communicative aspects of daily life and more?
Avatar 1 and 2 offer maybe a quantum reflection/possibility of the above scenario. I say quantum because one can never know for sure.
Please follow me. This article is just a subjective perception of the insertions of Tech in this cinematic product.
Today I want to pinpoint and depict a few Tech features in the movies Avatar 1 and 2.
What was already known about the first Avatar movie:
Ford has made public two types of car-building technology, one of which was utilized in the development of the film "Avatar" by James Cameron. The Ford experts convert models of human body motions into computer models, which are then used to evaluate design suggestions. The same technique was utilized by filmmaker James Cameron in the film "Avatar" to bring animated figures to life. Another way used by Ford to test concepts is to track a person's motions using over 50 sensors while interacting with an automobile. The data is then examined by professionals, who change the machine's or users' dimensions to test the design.
My desire is to focus more on Avatar 2 from different angles.
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Avatar 2 is a spectacle of virgin nature on a hypothetical world, but it's also a display of technology: exo-battlesuits, robotic spiders that can build a house in six days, hydrodynamic shark-shaped underwater capsules, hunting ships "whales," and so on.
Avatar 2 may appear extremely profound on the level of ideology in the areas of the future of civilization, environment, and so on, including feminist touches in its representation of female characters and Pandora's near-divine superconsciousness, but in other aspects, it's incredibly basic. Following various series featuring gay heroes or heroines of color, here are definite gender roles, largely connected with the morally superior but primitive Na'vi population, heteronormativity with traditional gender interactions, and a parallel to the standard good-bad dichotomy. It's essentially a Hollywood film with a cheap approach here and there.
Of course, the visual effects are spectacular. Dive among corals and bioluminescent creatures that almost surround you, chase dragons in flight or winged snake-like creatures in the water, slaloming through explosions on massive warships, tulkuni hunting from whalers, submarines, and high-speed capsules, an underwater tree of spirits, and various neural-spiritual connections. It's as though the surprises never stop coming.
Source (https://james-camerons-avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Miles_Quaritch)
The model of human society in "Avatar" is the scientific-military unit, where everyone is passionate about something, more precisely science or weapons. It is a society of passion and talents, of perfectionists who are ready to sacrifice themselves and do sacrifice themselves, putting science and saving human society above their lives. Salvation is the fundamental political concept.
They have no secrets. Their intimate diary, in video format, is made available to the authority for various scientific research or tactical positioning of an administrative nature or simply to ensure the replication of a new being, in case it dies. People are evidence of their own existence, their life is a Berzelius glass.
The scientific-military society seems to be a kind of perpetual crisis cell and also a political regime, the last possible political regime.
Humanity is already with one foot in the hole, even, symbolically, it is already dead: in order to connect to their own avatars, people close themselves in metal coffins. In these coffins, they lose their consciousness, which is transferred to the avatar. Thus, the avatar becomes more real and more alive than the original. So, the man is already dead, he can only live as his avatar, and, under certain conditions, the avatar can break away from the original, can gain autonomy.
In this movie, there seems to be no possible OUTSIDE. Humanity is captive to its own technology and can only survive inside this technology, with air conditioning. It can only go out virtually, through changes in consciousness produced, in turn, technologically. It is humanity encapsulated, embalmed in technology.
We're IN the 4th Industrial Revolution already. We're living the "Great" Reset. We're digitalizing and expanding beyond ordinary life.
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A heart-centered approach💚💚💚
I hope Tech and Science will work hand in hand and merge into creating greatness, empowerment, and health for new societies and actual ones.
Thank you for being close!
With respect,
Zpek.
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