Why I boycott Avatar
Because ideas matter.
There are plenty of people in this world who don't agree with me on that premise. One of these people might go see Avatar and wonder why I find it offensive: after all, it's a fictional piece of eye candy about an alien world.
But that same person, having witnessed 100 hollywood movies that take a Marxist view of Western Civilization's interaction with the environment (humans are exploiters), will be far less likely to complain when "Cap and Trade" taxes are introduced in the name of saving the environment. Not understanding that ideas matter, this person is simply led along by the subtle and deliberate messages infecting popular culture. To be honest, I believe that most people operate in this fashion.
To James Cameron and me, ideas do matter. To James Cameron, human beings are exploiters and destroyers of our planet. Even as he hypocritically relies on such "exploitation" to produce his vastly expensive films, so he decries it. I believe that Mr. Cameron is not so much a hater of humanity as he is a sycophant to Hollywood (ultimately Marxist) intellectualism. He wants accolades and Oscars, and he understands that the only way his puerile action film will earn such accolades is if it offers a bold Marxist theme. It is the same formula he used in Titanic, which offered a starkly Marxist view of Bourgeousie exploitation of the Proletariat. Now he gives us the "new" Marxism, in which rich and poor alike conspire to exploit the very ground under our feet.
Once upon a time men took pride in exploiting the earth. Such men built this nation. If we were to stop using our minds to alter nature (as we Westerners have learned to do so well) we will naturally revert to savagery. We should know that savagery in reality is nowhere near as noble as James Cameron's Smurf people. We should also know that such a reversion will require a massive, err, adjustment, of the world population, downward.