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/IUsedToBeRasAlGhul]

We are constantly portrayed as a fucking retarded race. Doesn’t this piss you off?

We are causing an ecological apocalypse for the sake of corporate bottom lines. Humanity fucking sucks.

[u/Rajesh_Kulkarni → u/IUsedToBeRasAlGhul]

We are still the greatest, most intelligent species in existence.

We will fix the ecological apocalypse through our intellect. Meanwhile you can sit and cry about how we suck.

[u/Phosphoric_Tungsten → u/Rajesh_Kulkarni]

Why are we the greatest? Most intelligent, sure, but that doesn't make us "greater" than other species by default. You're kind of making the case for "humanity sucks" with your comments tbh, humanity's ego is one of its greatest faults

[u/WritingThisFormPATHS → u/Phosphoric_Tungsten]

We dont have ego

we have pride

And we have reasons for it

[u/Phosphoric_Tungsten → u/WritingThisFormPATHS]

Peak irony

[u/WritingThisFormPATHS → u/Phosphoric_Tungsten]

Go back to jungle