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    By Juleon Schins

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    James Cameron is a converted agnostic and vegan. Film director, writer, producer, and editor, he established his name among the great. In Avatar (2009), humans are on a mission to an Earth-like planet, Pandora, in order to secure mining interests. As is the usual case on Planet Earth, too, on Pandora an indigenous population

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    PublisherBookTrail Publishing
    Release dateOct 13, 2021
    ISBN9781637675298
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      Copyright © 2021 by Juleon Schins

      Paperback: 978-1-63767-528-1

      eBook: 978-1-63767-529-8

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2021911900

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      This is a work of fiction.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction - Utopia

      Chapter 1 - Eden

      Chapter 2 - Animation

      Chapter 3 - Election

      Chapter 4 - Mission

      Chapter 5 - Initiation

      Chapter 6 - Treason

      Chapter 7 - Repentance

      Chapter 8 - Desertion

      Chapter 9 - Legend

      Chapter 10 - Ceremony

      Appendix - Exodus Decoded

      To James Cameron,

      With a Bow of Admiration

      INTRODUCTION

      Utopia

      Five centuries ago, Thomas More coined the neologism ‘utopia’. He used it as a title for his 1516 masterpiece, which describes the best social organization More could think of. Fully aware that such a place could not exist, he called his imaginary island ‘nowhere’, which translates to Greek as ‘outopos’: with ‘ou’ a negation, and ‘topos’ for place. ¹ It took human acumen three full centuries to introduce two related neologisms, equally derived from the Greek: cacotopia (1818) and dystopia (1844). The former means a shitty place, and the latter a bad place. These antagonists gained weight to such extent that they gradually shifted the meaning of utopia from ‘no place’ to ‘good place’. Moreover, the Greek root for the new meaning (‘eu’ for ‘good’) ² is much more straightforward than that for ‘ou’. ³

      Beatus Thomas More Martyr says the inscription. The medallion was coined after Henry VIII had him (among many others) decapitated over a dynastic succession problem. As nature would not help the King, he deemed it necessary to rescind the Church. Image © Gwengoat

      The remarkable, if not stunning feature of More’s Utopia, is that it does not at all describe a perfect society, in which all people are happy. More’s is an intellectual exercise, aimed at describing how life would be in a perfectly organized society (its laws, its politics, its institutions), though fully respecting the weakness of human condition. That is to say, in More’s Utopia all citizens are subject to the same abject emotions that all of us know much too well: envy, wrath, hatred, arrogance, and so forth. This is an essential difference between a medieval realist and a 19th century idealist.

      Jester of language, More invented nothing less than an alphabet, in use among the Utopians. More’s contemporary publishers did not consider that witty at all, and bluntly omitted it. Little did they suspect how trendsetting More’s Utopian alphabet would turn out to be. In the 20th century, many a Utopist writer would engage in a detailed exposition of language and geography of More’s Utopians.

      Filmmaker James Cameron gracefully follows the tradition set by More. In his famous movie ‘Avatar’, he provides the Na’vi people with their own language. Geographically speaking, Cameron is much more magnanimous than More: he gives the Na’vi a complete planet, rather than just a silly island. Admittedly, it looks a lot like planet Earth, and that is probably where all the filming was done. With language and geography, Cameron satisfies two Morean prerequisites, which one could call essential but non-pertinent. Cameron also satisfies the two pertinent essential requisites: the optimum organization of society, and the inherent weakness of human nature.

      Having discussed some societal problems in Antwerp (presently the largest harbor of Belgium), More’s character Hythloday lectures on how Utopia ought to be organized:

      legal suits are superfluous, as rationality solves all quarrels;

      men and women are educated alike;

      all religions, ideologies, and ways of life are equally welcome, as long as they do not undermine the very founding principles of Utopia, and as long as they do not proselytize;

      euthanasia is legal, as are societal death penalties;

      property is communal, and classes are inexistent;

      war is only seldom fought.

      The first five points would be unheard of in the early 16th century. With More, we meet an individual who provides not only the four essential ingredients of a totally novel genre. He also puts forward some quite radical ideas concerning societal organization. To do all this in satirical a form, is indicative of true genius.

      No doubt, James Cameron

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