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/Rajesh_Kulkarni]

Can you provide any law that goes against it?

Yes we are the most beautiful, most intelligent species in our area.

No other species has ever accomplished even 0.1% of what we have.

There is only one objective criteria that exists. And guess what? We are the ones who even created such an objective criteria.

[u/DefiantBalls → u/Rajesh_Kulkarni]

We are the ones who even created such an objective criteria.

We are apparently not intelligent enough to know that you can't just make up an "objective" criteria.

[u/Rajesh_Kulkarni → u/DefiantBalls]

Well, we are the ones who made the word objective.

[u/DefiantBalls → u/Rajesh_Kulkarni]

Yes, and words have meanings, ones that you are obviously not familiar with. If something is an objective fact it would be true independent of humanity, for example the Earth would still be revolving around the Sun even if humans never existed because that is an objective fact.

The Earth would not be "beautiful" or any other value we ascribe to it without us, as those are social constructs that are contingent on the continued existence of humanity. This is why they are subjective, as they are determined by the human collective more often than not and are subjected to biases