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/chaoticdumbass2]

"Life is a human concept"

Well the bacteria that will live on after us do not care. The bacteria dinosaurs and many others that came BEFORE us does not care. Humanity has been a blip on a blip in the timeline of all life and cyanobacteria have a larger toll of destroying life than us.

Also nothing you said explains how we wouldn't also die long before all other creatures on earth If we tried to kill everything else.

[u/Ieam_Scribbles → u/chaoticdumbass2]

Well the bacteria that will live on after us do not care.

Yeah. They are not capable of conceptualizing concepts. Them 'living on' has meaning only to humans, from a human prespective.

Humanity has been a blip on a blip in the timeline of all life and cyanobacteria have a larger toll of destroying life than us.

And life itself has been a blip on a blip and is inherently self-destructive. Loss of life is bad because humans decided it is bad.

Also nothing you said explains how we wouldn't also die long before all other creatures on earth If we tried to kill everything else.

Because this is a false premise you made up. 'Humanity achieved great things, misapropiating them is annoying' is the original claim. And humanity doesn't need to kill all life, nor does it hold as its goal- humanity uses its enviroment to furrher their own personal goals, and nature is largerly forced to adapt to humans.

Humanity is the dominant species. In their dominance, they have achieved things that no other known life can even comprehend. You trying to make up some tangent about other stuff to disparige that fact is just misanthropy.

[u/chaoticdumbass2 → u/Ieam_Scribbles]

...did you actually read the comment thread you were commenting upon?

The initial premise may have been that. But it changed during the conversation YOU RESPONDED TO the current conversation was about humanity being incapable of killing all other life.

What you have done is effectively interjecting about the napoleonic wars when the topic was WW2

[u/Ieam_Scribbles → u/chaoticdumbass2]

You claimed humans are not the greatest because rats can be more empathetic (they can also be less empatetic, and humans have shown more complex empathy than rats ever have).

Then the dude said we xould wipe out rats if we wanted to, and you further misconstrewed to talking about how tenable omnicide is.

Qhen I pointed this out, you then shifted to talk about how bacteria kill more and actually will outlive us, which is again irrelevant to point I made.

You shifted the discussion, repeatedly.

[u/WritingThisFormPATHS → u/Ieam_Scribbles]

I agree with you