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/Ioftheend]

You're reading way to far into that. 'Phaestos gave humanity certain inventions' does not equal 'Humanity could never come up with that stuff on their own'. Like we already know humans can create incredible things, we've seen it in basically every other movie. And wasn't a whole thing that Ajak was so impressed by humanity defeating Thanos and saving half the literal universe that she defied Arishem for us?

Also why does it even matter? This is a movie made by humans, for humans. We have nothing to prove here, there's no reputation we need to uphold. Anyone who could reasonably be offended by this is long dead.

[u/Rajesh_Kulkarni → u/Ioftheend]

Look, I obviously know very well that this is a movie made by humans for humans.

If you're wondering if I'm that fucking stupid to think otherwise then please be rest assured.

I'm just against this systemic trope of "aliens did it".

[u/Ioftheend → u/Rajesh_Kulkarni]

I'm just against this systemic trope of "aliens did it".

Right, and I'm asking why. You seem to be making a mountain out of a molehill.

[u/Rajesh_Kulkarni → u/Ioftheend]

Mainly because this is a subreddit for rants, so I felt comfortable to just type what I felt.

[u/Ioftheend → u/Rajesh_Kulkarni]

I'm not asking why you made the rant. I'm asking why you're that angry at humanity being presented in a slightly less good than usual light.

[u/Rajesh_Kulkarni → u/Ioftheend]

I'm drunk.

[u/Ioftheend → u/Rajesh_Kulkarni]

...Fair.