Yes, the blue aliens. Link. Avatar is not that eutopically optimized but it is still a huge improvement on most people’s lives; consider the possibility that your priors for what most people’s lives are like is off.
Interesting. Though absent more information it doesn’t tell us very much; I’d like to know how many people showed these kinds of symptoms after watching—to name three that might cause them by different mechanisms—Fight Club, or Dances With Wolves, or any sufficiently romanticized period piece.
This seems similar to Stendhal syndrome or other unexpected psychological responses to immersion in beautiful stimuli. (Say what you like about the plot, Avatar is visually rather pretty.)
Yes, the blue aliens. Link. Avatar is not that eutopically optimized but it is still a huge improvement on most people’s lives; consider the possibility that your priors for what most people’s lives are like is off.
Interesting. Though absent more information it doesn’t tell us very much; I’d like to know how many people showed these kinds of symptoms after watching—to name three that might cause them by different mechanisms—Fight Club, or Dances With Wolves, or any sufficiently romanticized period piece.
This seems similar to Stendhal syndrome or other unexpected psychological responses to immersion in beautiful stimuli. (Say what you like about the plot, Avatar is visually rather pretty.)