A Freudian hypothesis about why the left loves 'Dune': an attempt to work through the traumatic realisation that the legacy of the counterculture was not libertarian emancipation (Firestone) but feudal subjection to warring dynastic cartels (Jobs vs Bezos vs Musk).
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I don’t know if the politics are so ambiguous, at least not the intended ones. Herbert said multiple times he was writing against colonialism (and its branch forms like missionary actions), and I think that’s clear as a bell - especially in the first two Dune sequels.
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