Rabbits beware

DOWN THE HOLE AND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

We live in a world inundated with mad hatters, unreasonable queens and sycophantic assistants; such is the reality of our fallenness. However, despite all of our human frailties and weaknesses it is also a world that has borne fruit such as Mother Teresa, William Wilberforce and C S Lewis. If the Christian scriptures are to be believed, both the former as well as the latter are bearers of the Imago Dei as remarkable as such a claim might appear.  

There are more and more ‘intellectuals’ who would have us believe that this concept of the Imago Dei is not only wrong but a potentially dangerous ‘virus’ infecting the worldviews of many, and that this virus is the leading cause of the violence, madness and ‘specieism’ that is destroying ourselves and the natural world that we inhabit (it's only a matter of time before Christians are classified as mentally disturbed). According to the acolytes of this worldview we ought to approach life on the basis of equality with all living things and only by adopting that stance can we guarantee our existence and save Gaia. These are the same loons who argue that inter-specie' ‘sexual-relations’ are also acceptable as are assorted other madness’s.

A leading proponent of these notions of ‘equality’ and ‘anti-speciesism’’ is the Movie director James Cameron, and his powerful position as an imagination 'implanter' within popular culture makes his worldview of significant importance, particularly in how the concept might be ‘massaged’ into the mainstream consciousness.

In his hit movie ‘Avatar’ (a word that means a Hindu deity) the Na’vi live in trees, worship mother earth and like Gaians today talk of an energy that flows through all living things. They chant around a tree that whispers of their ancestors and they are unusually non sexist for a forest tribe but like the most fashionable of Hollywood stars hold Buddhist-like views of reincarnation and ‘life-energy’. These Na’vi also live a technology free life enjoying “the wealth all around us”, they are free of greed and competition, and live compassionately within a low emission paradise. The only menaces to their paradise are the almost uniformly sadistic 'humans'. Misanthropy on display? 

Nothing new in the basic concept,  Thomas More wrote of a similar paradise in 1516 calling it Utopia.

In perfect harmony with the acute blindness that seems to be part and parcel of the messianic preachers of the Anthropogenic Global Warming disorder, Cameron  depicts his creation scorning material possessions and living ‘close to nature’ while he himself lives in capitalistic overabundance and plain old fashioned greed. He creates a race who shuns technology whilst himself creating and benefiting from a technological marvel. He decries consumerism whilst stoking an advertising and marketing bonanza. The hypocrisy could fill (shrivel) pages and pages.

His entire philosophy is built on smoke and mirrors; but reflects the philosophy of the ‘populist worldview’ a worldview that many who inhabit our global society are attracted to and is in short, an unreflective and unexamined worldview.