Rants from an gamer

[vlad321]

sapphi_snake said:

vlad321 said:

sapphi_snake said:

vlad321 said:

Did you seriously just try to put Avatar and To Kill a Mockingbird in the same thought process and category? I am very well aware that art further culture, but let's face it. Avatar didn't do jack shit. Out of all the entertainment out there, only a small percent of it actually contributes to worthwhile culture. The other is just useless shit like Jersey Shore.

Also look at the pyramid you (it didn't actually link well) linked. The security of the body, of resources, of health, etc. is very damn near the bottom. Just after breathing, eating, fucking, etc. As you said yourself, it fulfills needs, but those are the last needs that need to be fulfilled. Meanwhile what teachers, professors, researchers, etc. do is they address our needs towards the Safety level. People are just too fuckign dumb to realize it which is what the problem is.

First of all, you're reading the pyramid wrong. The needs at the bottom ar the more important ones. The piramid collapses without them. The ones at the top ar the superior, more complex needs, that however cannot be fulfilled without first fulfilling the oners at the bottom. Art satisfies the need at the top, which makes it very unecessary.

And really, To Kill a Mockingbird is just as useful as Avatar for society. Both try to fulfill superior abstarct needs, but they don't do jack for fulfilling the more important basic needs. You can leave without them, but would you?

Exactly. So there is no reason entertainers should get anywhere near the amount of money teachers, researchers get, much less such an astronomical amount over them.

I would also gladly live without Avatar since it didn't bring anything. If you think To Kill a Mockingbird has the same effect as Avatar then you were clearly not listening in your literature class. Here is a hit, think of the topic and the time it was released. Avatar on the other hand is worthless.

Listen, people like a movie, they want to see it, they pay money to see it. That's how these people make money. Because they create products that millions of people want. That's called capitalism. If people don't like it for some reason that these individuals make so much money, then they can just not buy their products anymore. Simple as that. They do want their product though ,so they should stop moaning.

And I didn't study English literature (I don't live in an English speaking country) and I've never read To Kill a Mockingbird (yet). I have seen the movie though, and it's lightyears better than Avatar, but the ideea is that they're both products part of the same category, a category of products that people can live without (though I personally think that would be terrible).

Which is why I had "I can make a very strong point about the fallacies of capitalism" in my initial post to begin with. My problem is that people are idiots and give their money to something like entertainment, and their idiocy comes from the fact that they don't realize they benefit more from education. "Oh no, do some educatoin cuts and reduce my taxes, I wanna have the money to golf!" Complete and utter morons.