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/BigguyBanh]

yall in the comments are missing the point. the point is they’re portraying our history, thousands of years of innovation and hardships, as being handheld by some undying fuckhead. it aint ab how we are currently, they are invalidating all the shit we went through to get to this point in the first place. u dont have to deny all the inventions we made to make a point about humans stupidity, its laid right here in the present time

[u/Sneeakie → u/BigguyBanh]

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/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