Interesting that others are experiencing depression after watching the movie. It’s obviously touching a deep place within us that is. I think our species is just too far removed from nature, and seeing such powerful beings able to climb ropes, leap from bough to bough, and connect empathically with other creatures and enjoying soaring flight just shows how bankrupt we are sitting in front of our TVs eating potato chips worrying about our mortgages.

There’s also the feeling of futility and weakness when faced with those in power over us, whether it’s an employer, a civil servant, or law enforcer. We are not our own, and so much of what we can and cannot do is dictated by a government that is no longer “for the people and by the people.”

It’s interesting that you felt your “life was completely meaningless” after watching “Avatar.” Apparently, the movie is having some negative psychological effects on a number of viewers. As CNN reported this week, “James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle ‘Avatar’ may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.”

While dining with a friend last night, he told me that we are overfishing the oceans. The fishers use huge nets with which they dredge the ocean floor. They take only about 20 percent of the catch, and the remaining catch is thrown back into the water. It’s all dead, of course. Such waste is just deplorable. Reminds me of Jake Sully’s line: “There’s nothing green on Earth. They killed our mother.”

I think it is simply more than most good people can bear, and we have simply lost the will to live in this place. There seems to be no hope, no sign that any with the means to make a change by at least offering us reprieve from having to work for these corrupt fascist corporations to earn food, shelter, the basic resources we have in abundance rotting in silos every year, it really seems overwhelming to the point of futility.

I don’t see going back to a communal lifestyle as at all an option. Certainly it is unsustainable, and besides, they already own all the land.

I actually found myself willing for a nanovirus to physically destroy all who predominantly expressed the “greed gene.” I am not a violent person, but there comes a time when the only hope for a future worth living in seems to be to fight back with the same weapons used against us.

I pray to the Gods who have forsaken this place to give us another solution. If the aliens would only start up a colony for us somewhere and relocate us… But then so many good people wouldn’t want to leave their mother Earth.

So maybe start with homelessness and starvation in the number one super power in the world? I hope Obama chokes on his lies.