Imperial rulers stir up a religious fervour in a barren but resource rich wasteland, leading to jihadi blowback: Frank Herbert's Dune books
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@HeerJeet The Atreides aren't from Arrakis, and they have a lot of imperial favour. Paul "going native" is some Lawrence of Arabia stuff.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mentally_eel Oh, I agree the Atreides are imperial. That's my point. See here:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/633113655098363904 …Jeet Heer added,
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@HeerJeet I think there's at least kind of the suggestion that Paul's "desert savior" routine and green banner are linked to planted culture1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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@mentally_eel Yeah, religion was planted but there was also an ongoing bottom-up social revolution by Fremen which got co-opted by religion
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