This isn’t life imitating art. It’s art imitating life.
It’s just that this story in real life has been going on for a long time, since well before the first Dune books were written.
It’s like when people say it’s crazy how “Andor predicted this”. Like no dawg, this has happened before.
fair
I mean, herbert intended spice to be a metaphor for oil and the fremen are arab/muslim-coded for a reason. It’s just that this same conflict has been going on a long time.
Yeah, and then it morphs into a horrific regime led by a human-alien hybrid that things the only way forward is cruelty,
Assuming Herbert is truthful then the alternative was even greater cruelty and I think even extinction
No, notice how the books did never at any point had omniscient narrator. Leto II forced his own vision on entire galaxy and even himself had serious doubts about if it was the only path possible, or he was just locked into the random one.
the alternative was even greater cruelty and I think even extinction
That’s what they always say.
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I can tell you know nothing about Ali Khamenai because you called him “Ayatollah” like it’s name
I can tell your logical deductions (+debate skills) are horrible.
Also their entire religion is fake and the prophecy was made up ages ago so a different cult could use it when they felt they needed.
