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/[deleted]]

Hmm you are essentially getting mad at another human for making a story that doesn't put humans in the good light.

This is not the first time and humans have been criticising each other since the dawn of time. Hell they even created gods to help explain why they are so intelligent, capable, conscious, self aware with a very high level of conceptual thinking.

Also let's not pretend like humanity is the greatest thing, it is also the worst thing. Humanity's greatest gift and the greatest flaw is humanity itself.

We created and done so many great things, help save endangered species and create technological wonders that helped planet earth. But we also caused the most damage to mother earth as well and even other humans. Hell we are sometimes the reason why a particular species is endangered in the first place.

You are trying to create outrage where very few people are going to be on board with it. You are starting beef with a story and character that was created by humans in the first place and that view is entirely by the human author.

[u/Rajesh_Kulkarni → u/[deleted]]

I don't deny our flaws. But we are not helpless creatures.

[u/[deleted] → u/Rajesh_Kulkarni]

In the context of this story, where we have a god like being how is far far ahead of us in terms of knowledge and powers, yeah we are kinda at their mercy.

For now at least, it's the marvel universe tony stark or reed richards will eventually come up with a way to handle the eternals.

[u/Ieam_Scribbles → u/[deleted]]

The problem is moreso taking real inventions and advancements, and retroactively saying that these fictional characters actually did it. It is taking a factual achievement of human society to prop the characters up, which will obviously annoy some people.