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    Reading the Nausicaä mangas convinced me otherwise. He is one of those believers in the wisdom of nature and the inherent evilness of tech. Which is a shame because I really like his universes otherwise.

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      Ok, that’s a little let-down. Although I don’t think its that he is completely against tech, maybe his views changed over time since many of his movies feature technical advantages and not always in a bad way, for example the moving castle …

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        The Moving Castle is not his own story, it comes from a novel.

        The underlying theme of his movies is that tech is attractive and that good people use tech to do good but that it always ends badly anyway. That they would have been better off without going that road.

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          Ok, you’re starting to convince me. I still think some of his works are great solar punk even though maybe he didn’t intented them to be …

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            Oh certainly! But just like William Gibson hated the term “cyberpunk” despite being considered a main pillar of the genre, I think Miyazaki would reject the “solarpunk” term even though Laputa is pretty much spot on in that style!