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> Cameron has always been a proponent of Hollywood anti-capitalism:
It wasn't so much anti-capitalism as the trench-solidarity of the military-industrial complex. Cameron's 1980s films were rock 'em, sock 'em odes to neoconservativism, the purest expression of the regressive populism of Reaganomics imaginable: "Terminator" was its domestic drama, while "Aliens" was its foreign policy.
Cameron hasn't changed, but the times have. As a film, "Avatar" marks the moment that US neoconservativism realized it had been sold out by Wall Street neolibs to the BRIC central branks, all for a mess of forex pottage. Put another way, Pandora *is* the BRICs. Which makes the whole exercise profoundly silly, of course -- Hollywood has gone from "Planet of the Apes", those post-Vietnam tales of impending Imperial breakdown, to "Planet of the BRICs", where the Na'vi are basically Brazilian jaguars + Russian bears + Indian tigers + Chinese dragons.
-- DRR