Nor the nazi apologia either
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From what I remember in the show they just made all the airbenders monks? Like there wasn't a feudal underclass to support them like there were in other bender societies? Kinda weird tbh.
Huh this raises a lot of questions. I think they were vegetarians too (or was that just Aang?) so they wouldn't hunt or slaughter the sky bison. They probably wouldn't plant crops in the mountains as nomads. Maybe there were very few of them and mountaintop gardens could sustain them? It seems kind of unfeasible though.
I demand a political economy of Air Nomad society.
I mean the thing that makes the most sense is that air nomads were raiders who used to descend on other nations' villages and steal their vegetables
Constantly terrorizing that one cabbage guy
There were only 4 tribes of them and each tribe occupied a temple complex the size of a small town so yeah I think their population was pretty small. They seemed to mostly eat fruit pies to I imagine they gathered fruit from tree (either that they tended or wild trees) and traded with other nations for cereals and other staple foods.
The air nomads essentially lived in full luxury vegan communism until the fire nation genocided them. They were also the only nation to not have any homophobic or sexist customs, although weirdly the temples were segregated between men and women.
Lmao it literally sounds like pro-air nomad propaganda
"Yeah the air nomads never did anything wrong and just gave everybody hugs and then they got genocided"
But like... they didn't do anything wrong? They were pacifists who lived on big mountain and meditated
No they didn't do anything wrong which is sort of the critique. The show depicted the other nations as having their flaws and problems, but was ultimately still respectful which is good. The water nation was sexist, the Earth Nation was oppressively, the fire nation is racist and propagandized.
But the air nomads? There was no real lesson or nuance there, they were just depicted as this perfect, lost culture. Which would be fine if they just didn't want to get into that, but by naming people after the Dali Lama they are sort of making it political, and essentially endorsing feudal Buddhism and connecting it to the real world.
Sorry I'm not accusing you of being an air nomad propagandist, I'm saying if someone described a culture like that to me IRL, I would automatically assume they were selling me bullshit.
No you can accuse me of being an air nomad propagandist, they were a glorious and prosperous nation before the fire nation attacked
Also if I knew anything about Avatar then I think a Fire Nation Stan who attacks the entire plot of Avatar as propaganda would be a great bit account