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Why did John Galt create Galt's Gulch? Not exactly the same but still a relative point. Atlas Shrugged is full of "bad" people. Do we now say that Atlas Shrugged is anti-reason? No because the "hero" of the book is not anti-reason. Thus Jake Sully is the hero of Avatar, and he is pro-life. At least as I see it. Jake Sully becoming a na'vi is kinda like his Galt's Gulch.

I don't see avatar as anti-capitalism at all quite simply because greed, theft and murder does not equal capitalism. All Humans and All Business is not portrayed as ugly. Sure SOME humans were portrayed as "ugly" because some humans ARE ugly. Sure a big business entity in Avatar was portrayed as bad. Aren't some big business entities in real life actually bad though? Enron anyone? I, just like the next person on this forum, would dearly love to see a film showing a GREAT big business entity. And Avatar certainly has its faults.

Hi guys. I've actually been a mod and admin on Terry's site for a few years and I have become good friends with him. If anyone has any questions I'm more then happy to help out - though I can't in a lot of cases speak on behalf of Terry, I would hope that I can clear up and issues you may have. Regarding Zedd's daughter etc this is what happened: 1. During Debt of Bones, zedd's daughter was caputred. When she was saved Zedd put the deathspell on her. She would have been about 5 I think. 2. Zedd then put up the boundary between Midlands and D'hara, in the process sending the wizards fire (touched by the boundary/underworld) through to kill Panis Rahl and hurt Darken Rahl. 3. Zedd gave orders that anyone that didn't want to live in a world of magic should move to westland, and in the spring he would place a second boundary between westland and the Midlands (at most this would have been a year) 4. Years later, Darken Rahl having mastered the art of travelling the underworld, on one of his trips to the midlands found Zedd's daughter (without knowing it was her because of the deathspell) and raped her. 5. Zedd's daughter fell pregnant because of the Rape but this is not the reason Zedd fled to Westland. 6. Zedd only fled to Westland after the midland council took the power from him to name a seeker. He left them to their own devices so to speak. Regarding Nathan and the gifted heir: It does not say that ONLY ONE gifted heir is ever born. It does say that AT LEAST ONE gifted heir is born. So while Nathan was the first born gifted heir, his family must have had a second gifted heir. Regarding Magic and no improvements etc: Terry uses magic as a metaphor for numerous things. One is for Technology. The second is for individual talent etc. Someone made the comment that there didn't seem to be much change between Richards time and Kolo's time (the time of the great war etc 3000 years prior). Thats because magic was dieing out. Terry was using it as a metaphor - if you lock away skill and talent and reason etc, then life becomes stagnant. He explains this in more detail in Naked Empire with the bandakars. Their way of life was anti-reason and Richard made the comment that after 3000 years they were still living in huts.