In the Coen Brothers cult-classic “The Big Lebowski,” Vietnam vet and devoted bowler Walter Sobchak cocks a gun and points it a fellow bowler while hollering at the top of his lungs: “Has the whole world gone crazy?”

There is no connection between a film about a lazy stoner who loves to bowl, which earned less than $18 million at the box office, to a film that grossed over $400 million in less than four weeks. There is, however, a reason I begin my rant citing Sobchak as a source of inspiration.

This past week I stumbled across an article entitled “Audience experience ‘Avatar’ Blues,” written by CNN’s Jo Piazza.

Piazza article examines the trauma James Cameron’s “Avatar” is having on certain fans, who have had trouble separating the reality of Earth from the cyber-fantasy world of Pandora—where the film is fictionally set.

Yet some fans are so completely immersed in the film’s imaginary world that they can’t live life in the real world.

On the fan forum site “Avatar Forums” over a thousand people have posted to a thread entitled “Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible.”

On the fan Web site “Naviblue,” a user named Mike posted that he contemplated suicide after viewing the sci-fi epic.

Mike wrote, “Ever since I went to see ‘Avatar’ I have been depressed… I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be reborn in a world similar to Pandora.”

Now I stopped reading the article after I read that last passage, because it nearly made me vomit thinking that I share the same planet as someone that is so feeble and pathetic that they can’t separate reality from a film and just move on.

Of course, I came back to my computer 30 minutes later to read the remaining article that examined several other “Avatar” fans that cannot cope with life after Cameron’s movie.

To Ivar Hill, who posted on the “Avatar” forum page that life on Earth “just seems so meaningless” and “I don’t really see any reason to keep doing things at all, because I live in a dying world,” I only I have one thing to say—your what is wrong with this planet.

Instead of complaining that the world is dying why don’t you go out into theworld and be proactive. Plant a tree, give money to the homeless, hell I don’t care what you do, but please stop whining about how pathetic your life is in comparison to some wild, fantastical 3D adventure meant to entertain audiences, not make them question if life is worth living.

The problem I have with these fans is not their extreme interest and dedication to the film—trust me, I have realized some people have nothing better to do with themselves. Rather, it is their cop-out attitude.

While these cowards are sitting in some psychiatrist’s office or some Internet forum complaining about their depression, there are real world problems occurring everyday that the rest of humanity has to take care of, not to mention jobs to attend.

If these sulkers really no longer want to be human I have one thing to say to them—too bad. You are a human, deal with it. You can’t just escape into some Avatar body, because that is simply unrealistic.

I honestly do not care one bit for these people’s depression and trauma, because in reality they are just humiliating the human race. To be that stupid not to be able to separate reality from fantasy really shows how far we as a society has fallen.

And the fact that psychiatrists are attempting to abate their problems only exacerbates my frustration even more, because it means that any person that grows so attached to fake realities such as the Internet or dreamlike moons such as Pandora will end up dragging the rest of the world down just to accommodate their shattered emotions.

My only advice for the humans that still maintain their sanity is to ignore people like the ones mentioned in Piazza’s article, someday they will snap out of it and realize how foolish they have been.

If they don’t then I guess I look like an idiot, but at least I know what is real and what is a product of James Cameron’s imagination as well as spectacular visual affects.

Cameron wanted the film to feel real as possible and engage audience members into a world that was beyond their wildest dreams.

He never intended after the two and a half hour movie for fans to be so painstakingly engrossed in the alternate world that they couldn’t even roll out of bed and go to their job. I mean after all Cameron needs people to keep working in order to pay the $15 to go see his movie.

Overall, the current events evolving around “Avatar” and its unintelligent fan-base have began to destroy my interest in Cameron’s film—a renaissance to the film industry and a movie that will be a beacon of inspiration for years to come, but most importantly this discovery has left me mind-blown, confused, and disgusted.

Has the whole world gone crazy? I think so.