Viewing "Avatar" more than twelve years after my first experience, the thrills are largely undiminished. Maybe it's largely because this has been the roughest summer, climatologically, in my 76 year experience, here in Michigan. My former students in Idaho, Wyoming, California and other unfortunate states are experiencing some of the direst environmental threats because scientific warnings since the 70's were given lip service. In a different, but altogether, just as trenchant sense, the violations of native cultures by so called sophisticated elitists demonstrate that pride, contempt and hubris are more deeply entrenched enemies to the survival of the human race and the earth. In that sense, I strongly suspect that "Avatar" may be perceived as just as evocative, eloquent and tragic as we proceed into the ever encroaching future, which shows no favors to arrogance, ignorance and privilege.