“Common sense” here depends on both your priorities and what is considered “isolation”. I will be going into spoiler territory if I speak more about the movie, which I watched spoilers about, but haven’t seen yet. For Wakanda, in the film, it is sitting on a very rare metal, that can be weaponized and would screw up the world if it got out, so hiding makes sense. For other nations, it may make sense to avoid war, but to cut off trade, could be counter-productive actually. So, I am not sure what is “common sense”.
I think Wakanda is very self sufficient (maybe not in the movie, but in animation they can even cure cancer). Therefore they see no need to trade with others countries. If you have superior technology and is quite self-sufficient, what does other countries have that you don’t?
Thank you for clarifying.
I need to see the movie, but based on my understanding, your question about why bother to interact with the outside world, ends up being a question being pondered. If I go into more, it is in the spoiler category. This staying alone, I equated to one way to view MGTOW. Politically, you see it in the alt-right side, and the desire for nations to not get intertwined. The isolation is a key issue. You saw in Captain America: Civil War, that Wakanda did attempt to come out of the shadows and got attacked by terrorist elements, and this attack caused the the events to happen. Part of the spoiler part of the film is how Wakanda decides to interact with the outside of the world, and this interaction is going to connect with future Marvel films, particularly Infinity War. You see Wakanda in the trailer for Infinity War.
Related issue (I am not going to do a different thread here):
More MGTOW and Alt-Right related, I am seeing the identity of what is involved with Alt-Right fits here. There are racial nationalists who believe that race, along with common culture, is essential to the nature of things. I see more on the Trump side, it is just the culture, and having a common culture. What you have with Black Panther is questions of whether the racial component is needed. There is a push for common culture, without the racial element on the Trump side (see Breitbart also) which trumpet Black Panther as showing that you can have a great nation unified on culture, not race, by unity to this, so deviations from common culture, infusion of Islam (or other non European values) undermine things. Racial nationalists also say that genetics is essential. And with this, we are into various forms of identity politics.
Anyhow, just my take. I am seeing Alt-Right will debate over this, with white nationalists not being able to accept Black Panther as an icon of great leadership, because he is not white.
Anyhow, short on Wakanda, it can be argued that a nation possessing superior military technology used for defensive purposes, that minds its own business, can grow sufficiently advanced, and that fits right into the non-hawk members of the Trump camp. Of course, white nationalists, and other white identity politics, can never accept Wakanda as a sign of anything, because it is fictional and not white.
I take Wakanda as what would happen if a meteor of a superior metal landed in the region around Ethiopia, and how history would develop:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanda_(comics)
Africa never had that at all. Ethiopia and Egypt are arguably to two most advanced nations, but they fell behind for a number of reasons. So, it is a what if, that can be studied, but not see as is.
Anyhow, just my take.
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IGMOW (I Go My Own Way) 1 year, 11 months ago.
