A key quote from Dune - "God created Arrakis to train the faithful" - a harsh desert planet with massive predatory sand worms shaped the genes of the inhabitants into the ultimate warrior race - tough, cooperative, stoic, disciplined.
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He made the landscape alien to his readers but on Earth that environment doesn't create ultimate warriors - far from it. On Earth the harsh environment that stamps dominance in warfare into its inhabitants is actually pleasant *because you're descended from the survivors*
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
It's no surprise that the Fremen are the ones most able to defer pleasure into the future. With the hope that their planet would be habitable not by them, but their distant descendants
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Replying to @DestroyedArkana
When the planet starts to change the Fremen don't exactly like the results.
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