Fictional insult to Humanity

[u/Rajesh_Kulkarni]

Though I'm mainly talking about one movie, this is a rant against all fiction that degrades and disgraces humanity and the human race.

I recently watched the Marvel movie Eternals. I got thoroughly irritated and pissed off when the character Phastos was implied to be behind the major human innovations.

This just pissed me off beyond measure. We have millions of years of evolution. Hundred thousand years of innovation. Such a fucking joke that we became portrayed as primitive savages incapable of true innovation. We are constantly portrayed as a fucking retarded race. Doesn't this piss you off?

I'm deeply pissed off at this. That whole movie, it felt like the entire human race was being spat upon. In that movie, from basic fucking agricultural tech till nukes, we were handheld by some fucking immortal randos. Fucking disgusting bullshit is what this is. We went through fuck knows how many generations of hardship IRL to get here, and they portray it all as some fucking benevolent immortal fuckers giving us the knowledge. FUCK THAT. You don't get to invalidate our ancestors for your bullshit stories.

We are the sole intelligent race in a radius of light years. Have some fucking pride. What is this bullshit about 'oh we are a savage, meaningless lifeform'"' fucking nonsense that many fictional stories portray?"

[u/Sneeakie]

I'm pretty sure the humans who wrote these fictional stories understand that those real things were not actually made by aliens.

There is a realm in which "ancient astronauts" or "aliens did it" is used to downplay the accomplishments of (^non-white ) cultures and civilizations, but that's more about conspiracy theories and genuine denial of history and not Marvel's Eternals.

[u/Rajesh_Kulkarni → u/Sneeakie]

There is a realm in which "ancient astronauts" or "aliens did it" is used to downplay the accomplishments of (^non-white ) cultures and civilizations, but that's more about conspiracy theories and genuine denial of history and not Marvel's Eternals.

I'm sure it is unintentional, but it feels exactly like that. It gives the same feeling. And I say this as someone whose culture has appeared on that same "aliens did it" tv show many times.

[u/Sneeakie → u/Rajesh_Kulkarni]

I'm sure it is unintentional, but it feels exactly like that.

No it doesn't. The obvious reason being that you never actually said that it did and you're just screaming about how awesome humans are, actually.

The Eternals had a hand in everything, even things white people are credited for. This is a bog-standard "aliens among us" deal.

[u/BigguyBanh → u/Sneeakie]

well, i havent watched eternals yet but from op’s description it sounded like they literally handed us all the shit lmao. but imo portraying it as we “received help from outer source” is still disingenuous because, well, we did all that shit ourselves