“Dune is colonialist” “dune is a warning” wrong. The message of dune is that all computers must be destroyed and that doing cocaine gives you superpowers
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this is an "everyones right" thing. Herbert was a user of both and incorporated aspects of both.
When spice is a critique on IRL imperialist systems it's crude oil and cocaine and coffee a little bit. When it's a drug effecting a characters brain it's shrooms/acid.
Just for fun I assume the Butlerian Jihad was the fundamentalists response to the discovery by the earliest stage of Ian Banks "Culture" and in the path less/more traveled, they won, and rewrote history
So much! I usually think of Iain's Culture books as series, but I'd settle for a pair of epic 'Zakalwe' movies, the first ending as he—a bit out of sorts—receives a hat as a gift.
I read Consider Phlebas first, and started out with a hatred of the Culture because the Idirans seemed like the good guys, but maybe Iain Banks sold me a total dummy there :-D
cocaine that gives you mental powers, dont forget...makes you trip balls too and might mutate you into a flying fish that can teleport across the Universe
One alternative answer is “a hero is the worst thing that can happen to a movement”, but I think “Butlerian Jihad now” is more trenchant for our current moment
Dune basically seems like Avatar, if Jake Sully led the Na’vi to invade and wipe out the population of Earth, which, of course, I hope is the plot of Avatar 4.
The message of Dune is “imagine how fucking horrible global warming will get.” The hero story was bolted on later when his reader said “what’s the point of all this desert nonsense?”
Now I want to see Dune done as Goodfellas, with Paul riding a sandworm and looking nervously skyward for Harkonnen ornithopters while a coked-up voiceover explains what's happening.
Islamic coded only as Zensunni Catholicism, and Budislamic traditions were wrapped into the Orange Catholic Bible 10,000 years before the action starts,
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When spice is a critique on IRL imperialist systems it's crude oil and cocaine and coffee a little bit. When it's a drug effecting a characters brain it's shrooms/acid.
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folks need to get this shit *correct*
havent actually read The White Plague haha
"Five is Right Out."
Dune is a hard story to tell in less than about 6-8 hours, honestly...
Dune is also about WORM 🐛