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Avatar: The Atlas Shrugged of the Left

Basset Hound in TX Wrote: Dec 29, 2009 11:09 PM

with my husband and teenage daughter. We found it mildly entertaining, but even my daughter said the story was shot full of cliches. I thought Cameron couldn't have been more blatant if he would have worked in a scene in the dining room where a historical discussion was taking place around the war in Iraq being fought so that Exxon and Shell could rape the land for oil.

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Avatar: The Atlas Shrugged of the Left

For 52 years now, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged has stood alone as the shining example of political allegory. Rand's novel has long been considered to be essential reading for American individualists and advocates of free markets. The American left on the other hand has not had a work of fiction that definitively embodies their worldview. Avatar might just fill that void. While the two stories are powerful, their messages are diametrically opposed.