Before some local smuglord shoots it down as “idealism” or whatever, I think he’s on to something.
Look at what chuds and libs are doing: they’re adhering to fantastical saviors, superheroes and the like. While that’s dangerously silly, what is the alternative outside of a very local faith in the people immediately around us?
Our rulers aren’t going to save us; they’re the one’s burning the planet down.
The favored minions of the rulers despise us and are eager to stamp us out.
Almost the entirety of the propaganda apparatus entertaining us is continually telling us to either trust in fantastical saviors or assume that everyone is a monster and that it’s a free for all and that any alternative to the status quo would be worse somehow.
Except Miyazaki rejected his Marxists beliefs long ago, while making Nausicaa. So whole he makes these statements, he has no ideological underpinning that would give him an idea of a way forward.
He rejected it as his core belief in order to make room for Shinto.
