Modern narcissists are so unbearable that they refuse to acknowledge that yesterday was a time of different ways, morals, mores, views and practices. Modern narcissists do not understand that all of these things are ever-evolving and that one day future narcissists will insist on effetely pronouncing us great moral villains and fiends. After all, we burn fossils fuels. We insist that marriage is defined as being only between TWO people, we cut down trees for fuel, housing and worst of all- BOOKS. (OMG we HAD computers!) and we actually eat meat from murdered animals and fish. We don't allow post-birth abortion, we tolerate religious figures who open preach against people engaging in something known as sins without imprisoning them, we question the righteousness of the governing authorities (again without imprisoning the verbal terrorists that do it) and we only provide TWO meals a day to children in our schools. What kinds of terrible people are we?! So you see, as times change- so do customs and views.
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yunie1281
9 years ago
I don't see what narcissism has to do with it. There's a lot of things in this movie that are cringe-worthy because it came out in 1953 (is there a single actual character in the whole tribe?) and it can be hard for perfectly non-narcissistic people to understand different cultures. And the past is a different culture. It's so obvious to people today that abducting baby animals to sell for money is ethically wrong that it's just sometimes hard to get into the mindset that some people found it right even though we know about the 19th and 20th century mindset when faced with "exotic" foreign locations.
I mean, obviously it's being acknowledged here that the past was a different time with different views and values and whatnot. The question posed wasn't "Why is this film pretending that this isn't wrong" but "how can people have thought that way back then" and that's a fair question. Saying "Well, don't worry about it, it's just the past and don't you know that's DIFFERENT" is missing the point. We can acknowledge people thought differently than we do today and still try and figure out how they thought about it and why.
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