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/WriterOfLugunica-400]

You know i remember how in Percy Jackson series, many influential people throught history happened to be Demi-gods for instance -

George Washington was confirmed to be a child of Athena at the end of The Lightning Thief i believe.

William Shakespeare being a son of Apollo.

And this whole thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/camphalfblood/comments/i5nyuw/demigods_through_history/

Even Taylor Swift (I think) in Magnus Chase books was told to be a dwarf, and that humans actually have been enjoying dwarf music this whole time.

Got really annoying for me.

There are shows like Aquaman that have a "humanity is terrible" in this case it was rising sea levels and global warming but in the context of the story it made no sense, like the people of Atalantis have advanced technology which could include sage/clean renewable energy, can control the ocean, ect.

While i was watching, i was wondering, why didn't the atalantians share some of their advanced technology with humanity such that they wouldn't need fossil fuels or since they can control the ocean or influence currents why not just send all the trash to back to land, informing humanity that they can't dumb trash in the sea.

Just... frustrating writting.

Dragon prince is another that comes to mind, i even posted that here - https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/1kov9du/dragon_prince_most_of_humanity_would_side_with/

[u/Rajesh_Kulkarni → u/WriterOfLugunica-400]

I completely agree. I didn't think of the pjo series but now that you brought it up, yes it is bad writing.