However, if the Crypt was lying (or simply wrong) about humanity's ability to survive the rectification of the world, by destroying it Nausicaä has given her people a shot at living. My understanding of the proposed series of events is that everyone currently living would eventually be killed as the toxic forest swept over the Earth, and that at some theoretical future point when the world is purified of toxins a race of humans would be grown from stored gene banks, possibly along with memory uploads stored in the Crypt (honestly that part was a little vague to me).Īssuming you believe the Crypt-which is highly suspect to begin with, given how readily it makes and abandons external allies-as far as Nausicaä is concerned her entire world is dead either way. Sometimes it's a path to glorious failure, because heroes don't always win, but they do at least try. A hero takes the glorious path of trying to overturn fate and achieve the better ending. Non-heroes take the safe bet and follow the fate someone else scripted for them, content that they didn't lose everything. That's why she put her bet on humanity doing what humanity has always done: muddle through and figure out a solution somehow, when free of the shackles of the past.

Instead she decided that, for all its flaws, humanity wasn't beyond redemption. Nausicaa's choice was to reject the apocalyptic pessimism that says humanity is so corrupt the only solution is to replace it with Humanity 2.0 and start over. They were a bunch of violent warlike mutants to be exploited for its own ends and then wiped away to make room for the genetically engineered pure humans that would emerge from from the Crypt's vats.

In the Crypt's eyes, every living human wasn't really human.

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