This week on the blog, I gush about Dune (2021)! More to the point, I talk about why I think the film is a faithful adaptation, but not a dogmatic one and also how the film brilliantly presents a post colonial reading of the (first part of the) book.https://acoup.blog/2021/11/05/miscellanea-reflections-on-the-sands-of-dune/ …
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Profoundly disagree on differences being 'mostly superficial.' History does, as Thucydides suggests, reflect itself, but it does not repeat and there are major discontinuities in the ways humans survive (pre-agri, agri, industrial) which have massive impacts.
If all one has is a light dusting of history it is easy to miss this because nearly all of our history slots into that 'predominantly agricultural' period (the 'organic economy'), but non-agricultural societies work very differently, as do industrial ones.
