Dune series is great for thinking about politics because the first book offers a reassuring Joseph Campbell power fantasy & every subsequent book (by Herbert) shows why that fantasy is evil & will lead to mass slaughter.
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Speak for yourself.
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Dune is good for political discussions...if you know someone other than yourself who has read it.
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Through the Foundation lens, is the current U.S. President Asimov's Mule?
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Isn’t Dune kinda fascist-y? Sort of religious/ubermench something something?
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With prescience it's justified. it does have a God Emperor, which is something they occasionally meme Trump with.
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Dune is worse than HP in that regard
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All the people practicing bad race science are viewing through the Dune lense
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I tried a Dune reference...it didn’t take.https://twitter.com/wildbilbo/status/972599085998813184?s=21 …
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