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I'm not sure yet about where this will go : maybe it's best merged with [[BioCrisis]]. | I'm not sure yet about where this will go : maybe it's best merged with [[BioCrisis]]. | ||
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I'll be detailing it and splitting it up : consider this as an "Oni/Nausicaä" sandbox for now. | I'll be detailing it and splitting it up : consider this as an "Oni/Nausicaä" sandbox for now. | ||
==Wilderness Preserve== | ==Wilderness Preserve== | ||
===Fateful trespassing=== | ===Fateful trespassing=== | ||
Quote from the [[Quotes/Speech#Intro_4|intro]] of {{C11}} | |||
;Hasegawa | |||
:[...] | |||
:We never should have left the city. But we wanted proof of what was being allowed to happen. | |||
:They called it a Wilderness Preserve. It was one of the Contaminated Zones, the dirty secrets that the government made it easy to ignore. | |||
:We knew that traveling there would brand us as enemies of the state. We thought we were prepared to deal with the consequences of our choice, but what happened was more horrible than anything we could have ever imagined. | |||
:On our way into the Zone, Jamie cut her leg. The wound became infected almost immediately. I'd never seen anything like it. She was dying in my arms and there was nothing I could do to save her. All I could do was ease her pain. | |||
:The world outside the Atmospheric Processors is poisonous. If something isn't done we are all doomed. | |||
:[...] | |||
===Flyover warning=== | ===Flyover warning=== | ||
Quoting a [[Quotes/Consoles#Wilderness_Preserves|console]] from {{C4}} | |||
{{:Quotes/Consoles/level_4c}} | |||
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==Added value== | ==Added value== | ||
===Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind=== | ===Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind=== | ||
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The human logic is to ''not'' adapt physiologically, and alter the environment instead. In other words, Man has long substituted technological evolution to the biological one. That poses a problem when the environment changes are particularly violent : Man's ''unwilingness'' to adapt physiologically is paired with an ''inability'' to do so, in the event of e.g. a [[BioCrisis|major environmental crisis]]. | The human logic is to ''not'' adapt physiologically, and alter the environment instead. In other words, Man has long substituted technological evolution to the biological one. That poses a problem when the environment changes are particularly violent : Man's ''unwilingness'' to adapt physiologically is paired with an ''inability'' to do so, in the event of e.g. a [[BioCrisis|major environmental crisis]]. | ||
[[Hasegawa]]'s [[Daodan]] can be seen as an extreme (and desperate) way to reunite | [[Hasegawa]]'s [[Daodan]] can be seen as an extreme (and desperate) way to reunite Man with Nature : indeed, the Daodan fundamentally endows humans with the atrophied faculty to ''adapt''. | ||
There's a bit of a parallel with Nausicaä's promotion of harmony between Mankind and Nature : however, the harmony brought about by the Daodan is somewhat more creepy (see the entry about [[Daodan#Smart cancer|"smart cancer"]] and following) than | There's a bit of a parallel with Nausicaä's promotion of harmony between Mankind and Nature : however, the harmony brought about by the Daodan is somewhat more creepy (see the entry about [[Daodan#Smart cancer|"smart cancer"]] and following) than Miyazaki's fairy-tale-like message. | ||
Nausicaä and [[Konoko]] have a lot in common | Nausicaä and [[Konoko]] have a lot in common : | ||
*innocent, caring and altruistic by nature | |||
*endowed with symbiotic "superpowers" | |||
*excelling in acrobatics and combat | |||
*sporting a strong sense of initiative | |||
*headstrong in | |||
**their quest for the truth | |||
**support of a sort of symbiosis between Mankind and the toxic environment it generated | |||
*... | |||
However, Oni's Daodan has a quite non-trivial biotechnological background, the details of which Konoko is disturbingly happy to overlook (as compared to Nausicaä, who experiments on toxins, and figures out the dual, regenerating role of the contaminated areas). | However, Oni's Daodan has a quite non-trivial biotechnological background, the details of which Konoko is disturbingly happy to overlook (as compared to Nausicaä, who experiments on toxins, and figures out the dual, regenerating role of the contaminated areas). | ||
Konoko's actions (or [[Hasegawa]]'s, for that matter) are consistent with the ''radically pessimistic'' assumption that the contaminated areas are ''here to stay'' and will only grow larger. Taken on its own that statement is the same as that of warrior princess Kushana, and most humans in Nausicaä's world. | |||
But when it comes to the ''alternative to a Man/Nature struggle'', it's very different in both tales. For Konoko/Hasegawa, the best thing humans can do is ''become part of the overall contamination'' : since the environmental damage is deemed irreversible, that's the only kind of harmony that can be achieved. | |||
Miyazaki's Nausicaä is infinitely more optimistic and constructive. | |||
"Mankind as we knew it is doomed. The Chrysalis will change us all. Let's hope it's for the better."... | "Mankind as we knew it is doomed. The Chrysalis will change us all. Let's hope it's for the better."... Konoko's (Hasegawa's) message is close to that of Myazaki's story, where Nausicaä is the "spokesman" of the contaminated forest... ''except'' Nausicaä never means to be assimilated/alienated by the toxic environment : she points out a way for everything to go ''back to normal''. | ||
So, basically, Oni features a darker version of Nausicaä's dilemma : much more pessimistic about awareness and redemption. | So, basically, Oni features a darker version of Nausicaä's dilemma : much more pessimistic about awareness and redemption. | ||
Since such a radical posit is necessarily somewhat trivial, there's much room/need for exploration and complexification. | Since such a radical posit is necessarily somewhat trivial, there's much room/need for exploration and complexification. | ||
Could it be that Hasegawa and his daughter are overdramatizing/overlooking things? | |||
To be continued... | To be continued... | ||
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==Related== | ==Related== | ||
*[[BioCrisis]] | *[[BioCrisis]] | ||
*[[ACC]] | *[[ACC]] | ||
*[[Cataclysm]] | *[[12/3|Cataclysm]] | ||
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