The fact that people are actually being killed for such a Dark Ages worldview just doesn't sit right here in the enlightened U. S. of A. at the dawn of the 21st century.
In the year that "Avatar" swept the awards shows, Movieguide cautioned against its "New Age pagan worldview, which contains extremely anti-capitalist content with a strong Marxist overtone.
As he aged, his worldview was formed by writers and poets like Arthur Koestler and Wilfred Owen and by novels like George Orwell's "Keep the Aspidistra Flying," which described the lower-middle-class Britain of his youth.
A horse's hoof disfigured him at an early age, and his worldview is very much that of a man who's been kicked in the face.
Other Christian critics wrote that Avatar has "an abhorrent New Age, pagan, anti-capitalist worldview that promotes goddess worship and the destruction of the human race" and suggested that Christian viewers interpret the film as a reminder of Jesus Christ as "the True Avatar".
Over the last 200 years it took form of an Anglo-American worldview introducing the age of economics: industrialization, liberal representative democracy, colonization, and economic growth sponsored by innovation.
All are close in age and share a political worldview.
But in this new age of distribution, is our worldview becoming distorted?
The Regrettes may be high-school age, but the band's worldview is all grown up.
Maybe it's a similar worldview, songwriting skills honed by age and experience, or perhaps they're just kindred spirits, but there's a reason why Mellencamp keeps company with Bob Dylan.
