<div>I haven't see Avatar either, but this plot sounds oh-so-familiar (and the last paragraph is significant):</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/opinion/08brooks.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/opinion/08brooks.html</a></div>
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<div>Patrick and I are movie fans, and "entertainment" is only one aspect of what we find interesting about movies.  What movies reveal to us about the time in which they were produced (by which director and from what country) is what's often the more fascinating tale.</div>

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<div>Olga <br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Max More <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:max@maxmore.com">max@maxmore.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Avatar: misanthropy in three dimensions<br><a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/earticle/7895/" target="_blank">http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/earticle/7895/</a><br>
<br>-- Comments from anyone who has seen the movie? (I haven't yet.)<br><br>Max<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
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