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She's missinformed in the sense that as far as I'm concerned there are no plans for dams in the Amazon basin. What for? Energy? We have offshore oil for that now, and plenty of it (and, actually, plans for additional nuclear power plants). To prevent flooding or water shortage? In the Amazon Bazin? It makes no sense. The government is not "selling the river", as sh puts it, tho there have been some moves to legalize land that has been illegaly occupied. Which is bad, granted, but not as nearly as dramatic as she puts it. She also implies that we live in some sort of totalitarian, fact-concealing, censorship-proned dictatorship, and not a solid democracy. This is Brazil, the country, not Brazil the Terry Gillian movie. Ans she seems to ignore that the native peoples in Brazil are not persecuted and exterminated by the army, but instead are protected in their own sovereign territories(IMHO badly referred to as "reservations") that surpasses in size many countries.
She's racist, however benevolent, in the sense that she seems to believe in the "myth of the noble savage", which is so 18th-century and ethnocentric and out-of-touch with reality, and implies that it applies to my people, which would thus not be a complex, multi-racial, multi-cultural, sofisticated and flawed, people as any other in the world stage today. Which, on a personal level, is quite irritating (a sentiment that has been unanimous amongst the other Brazilian individual who have been fowarding this article around). She also implies that the Brazilian people is so ignorant and passive that an American movie could the "awakening call" for our environmental awareness. And she also ignores the fact that the people(s) that live in the Amazon Bazin, both native and introduced, have complex interests and intentions, and are often the promoters, not the victims of the deforestation (without implying that others are indeed the victims, of course). Many of them would rather have "modern progress and facilities" to "living close to nature" (not implying tha vice-versa isn't true as well). There are indigenous tribes who allow loggers and miners to enter their sovereign territory in exchange for money. I don't mean with this example that the natives are evil What I mean is, our reality is not the simplistic reality of a blockbuster in 3D. There are no saints. There are demons. We are all heroes and villains in this tale (hero/villain ratio may vary). We all have our good points and our shortcomings and we are all equally responsible, doesn't matter where welive. In short, we are not characters in a movie about giant smurfs with exposed neurons...
You probably have noticed that I used terms like "implies" and "seems" and similar a lot in the text. It's because I really don't know who that person is, what is her work, what is her intention. I guess she meant to be satyricial and/or farsical about the text, as she puts it in the commentary section herself, but satyre is a difficult art to pull off, and I can sincerely tell, as the satyrized party, that I feel she missed the spot by far this time. I'm sure she's done a lot of important, good stuff, and you have all the reasons to have the hots for her, ONT, and I'm thankfull for her for all that she may have done that helped the planet AND humankind, but, as we say here in Brazil, she just missed an excelent opportunity to stay quiet and say nothing (to shut up, to be more literal in the translation).
Also, why the hell would she hear that Avatar's been banned in China and make an article about Brazil? It's because Pandora looks like Brazil? Doesn't China have enough river-related environmental and humanitarian problems for her to write about? Or is it "our" Amazon Jungle "her" pet cause?
But you're right, I sure am being emotional about the whole thing. I'm certain you'll educate me now as to why that woman and you know more about my country's problems than me, and why she's absolutelly right in mocking my people so and I'm so wrong for getting mildly upset for it (after all, I didn't even bother to post this in the hate thread) and why the fact that she does do a lot of good stuff somehow precludes her from having some human flaws and eventually screweing up, however well intended she was and nulifies other people's right to not approve of her completely, specially the people she, however unintendly, offended. Oh boy, it's going to be like old times, dear... |
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