Good point, there are no examples I can think of where anyone has portrayed #eugenics positively in fiction.https://twitter.com/asbdahfg/status/1451190937179148288 …
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Replying to @RokoMijic
C'mon Roko - gonna lose your nerd card for this one. Dune and a movie version was even released recently.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @RokoMijic
Possibly I missed something in Dune, but my sense was Herbert was rather repping environment by pitting the idea of ‘hard places make strong men’ against the abortive Bene Gesserit breeding programme
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Replying to @metaauthor @RokoMijic
Only the strong survive Arrakis which means selective pressure. Herbert was explicit that a theme of his are systems that produce feedback - Arrakis and the Fremen are a system - Arrakis removes weak Fremen, the Fremen reshape Arrakis with long-term discipline.
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Also Paul, the product of the selective breeding program, effortlessly owns the best Fremen warriors then takes possession of their entire civilization, then the Empire
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His son exceeds him in every way but is only half the result of the deliberate breeding program and half the result of the incidental breeding program that was the harsh environment.
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