>>6348214>>6348337>>6348353>>6348391>>6348393>Will the political message, ie the MORAL PURPOSE of Miyazaki / Laputa be forgotten?These days the political / moral message of Jonathan Swift Laputa, and Gulliver's Travels has entirely been forgotten, so maybe the Miyazaki postwar Japanese pacifism will be forgotten by the next generation too, enamoured and beguiled by the mere nostalgia amd superficiality of AI generated anime aesthetics
Originally, Swift intended it as a MORAL SATIRE, Lilliputians as tiny insignificant people focused upon giant details, Brobdingnagians as giant people obsessed with tiny trifling details etc, the chapters on Laputa may have been some satire against Hobbesian perspective on government, or regarding the use of the Royal Society and scientific / technological academies to support the state (think about a society floating in the air, unanchored and unmoored from its foundations) and one of the descriptions of the purpose of the flying nation of Laputa is described by Swift as using lodestones to manipulate the levitating island into crushing insurrections and buildings of rebellious terrestrial cities on the ground surface; another method is merely to blockade a city by floating the island above it, denying them rain and sun. The citizens of Laputa are described as being obsessed with mathematics astronomy music and abstraction, to the extent that they ignore everything else, and they praise the beauty of women according to their geometric proportions of how rhomboid or elliptical or resemblant to parallelograms the women appear to be lol. Laputa in age of sail trade and Jesuit missionaries languages of Spanish or Portuguese means THE WHORE ?? and actually the Gulliver's Travels sections of Laputa court women suggests they are fond of promiscuity or taking gallants lol
The opening of the Laputa chapter describes Swift as narrator being seized by Japanese pirates, and interestingly the entire original chapter heading of Laputa in Gulliver's Travels is "Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, (Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg) ... and JAPAN" hehe
And I just realised the main villain? in Laputa is named MUSKa lol
