It’s fascinating to see his politics change through the length of the story. He rages from one thing to another, and as he ages through the telling of the story the narrative gets more and more intense, until it kind of “snaps” and then everything falls into place.
I recreated (with my own flawed hand and inadequate understanding of quills) one of my favorite scenes out of the entire story:
It’s literally been on my cube wall, and my guiding light, at every single job I’ve ever had this century.
“Having ended Nausicaä doesn’t mean that everything has ended or come to a conclusion… I ended the story at the same point as we are now, at the starting point of an incomprehensible world.”
—Hayao Miyazaki, from Starting Point: 1979~1996
Yeah. Just like that.
PS: Hardcover: 1104 pages. Far too short.