But to what I was saying, Star Wars is in this juxtaposition the conservative right wing counterpoint to Dune's radically progressive revolutionary position.
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Which is ironic because if you were to ask Lucas, I think "conservative" or "right wing" would be the absolute last words he would describe himself with.
But things get even more interesting once you add the prequels into the mix. Because as much as much as the original trilogy reads like a reactionary response to Dune, all of Lucas's later work in the franchise reads like an opposing rebuttal to all of his previous premises.
Suddenly, the Jedi go from being fabled heroes from "a more civilized time" to being an arrogant and ineffectual organization of rigid dogmatists who's incompetence blatantly enabled both the Republic's corruption as well as Palpatine's rise to power and the formation of the Empire.
And while this particular critique of Religious institutions doesn't exactly mirror that of the Bene Gesserit in Dune, it is still far more ideologically aligned than before.
And the exploration of the original Galactic Republic's corruption and its direct continuity with the Empire is also a stark departure from the original trilogy's implicit premise that republicanism is a workable solution to the imperialism.
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