Avatar

Interesting that an anti-war film—in fact, a largely un-American film—should be so popular at the box office, though I suppose Avatar is more of a David and Goliath story than anything else. Kind of like the Star Wars saga in which we are directly identified as the evil empire. Odd that Americans love the story but miss the underlying parable. It’s one of the strange things about our culture. We see but never understand. We mouth words but never comprehend them. We talk about God but have no real idea what God is.

Perhaps I’m being too harsh, however.

Which of us (no matter where we live or what our race or religion) does not profess one thing, do the opposite, and is totally blind to it? Ancient wisdom tells us to judge not, criticize not, condemn not, but who is really strong enough to do this? I know I am not.

Of course, language is the curse that condemns us because it is all about making judgments. I suppose that is why some ascetics take a vow of silence. But can anyone succeed in stopping his mind from deciding how things are? I sincerely doubt it. No one escapes being human, no matter how he pretends otherwise.