Spindley Q Frog
@hache House Atreides manufacturing consent by leveraging Space White Supremacy that was exported by Space Missionaries
It’s very easy to leave details out and conclude Dune is “Harkonnen bad, so Atreides does the Good Colonialism and everyone is happy” but Herbert says in interviews that it’s meant to be heavily critical. This is supposedly clearer in book two (which I don’t remember at ALL) but so far it seems a lot more plausibly supported in the text of the first than I remembered
Anatoly Shashkin💾
@SpindleyQ Book 2 begins with all the bad shit that Paul was afraid of coming true.
JP
@dosnostalgic @SpindleyQ yeah it's basically "Atreides coming to power on the back of the messiah legend kicked off a galaxy-spanning holy war that was probably far bloodier than any mere brutal colonial project would have been, and these kinds of figures are in general disasters for humanity" - a bummer of a theme that only one adaptation has stuck around for.
Anatoly Shashkin💾
@SpindleyQ @jplebreton "Children of Dune" the sequel to the 2000 mini-series. Actually crams in two books in 3 episodes.
Spindley Q Frog
@jplebreton @dosnostalgic I'm curious which one!
JP
@dosnostalgic @SpindleyQ yep! only saw it once back in the day, remembered it being "not bad".
then there's God Emperor of Dune, one of the wildest time skips in all of science fiction.
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