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Date of upload: Mar 10, 2024 ^^
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"I wrote the Dune series because I had this idea that charismatic leaders ought to come with a warning label on their forehead: *May be dangerous to your health*. Charismatic leaders tend to build followings, power structures that tend to be taken by people who are corruptible. *Power attracts corruptible*. Dune is conceived as a planet that is totally desert, so the water on it is a metaphor of oil here, clean air, potable water itself, a metaphor for these shortages that we are encountering and the story is told in terms of people who are recognizable, but they live in a culture that is somewhat... different." ~ Frank Herbert Interview on Dune
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A few corrections regarding lore:
-The people of Dune don't live just 10.000 years into the future. It's 10.000 A.G., which means after the Spacing Guild acquired its monopoly over Interstellar Travel around 11.000 A.D. Dune takes place more than 20.000 years into the future.
-Paul also can't see into the future in the classical sense. He just has all memories of all people who ever lived and can calculate the most probable outcome for any situation based on every scenario that ever happened.
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“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
I'm super stoked the movies that have come out have managed to capture the essence of book that feels almost impossible to film. I'm even more stoked that you made a youtube video essay that managed to capture the philosophical essence of a fiction book (my favorite fiction book) that contains some of the deepest and most eternally applicable questions about exactly what it means to be human.
Well done man & I really hope this encourages more people to pick up the book.
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Small correction, but Dune does not take place 10,000 years in the future. Dune takes place in the year 10191 AG, AG standing for "After Guild", when the Guild was established and controlled space travel. Based on the Dune wiki, the events of the Dune saga takes place 25,000-30,000 years after our current time. Excellent video though.
"The mystery of life is not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience" - Muad'Dib
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1:12 They live over 20,000 years in the future. It's over 10,000 years since the Butlerian Jihad
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"Power is to serve not to dominate" 2:51
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I read Dune ( Messiah, Children of, back-to-back-to-back) when I was in my teens 16/17 years old. It blew me away, still one of my favourite series of books. The idea about ancestral memories intrigued & challenged me the most. (Have subsequently learnt Jung got there first). Nevertheless, we all value our individuality, but the information we carry in on our genes begs the question just how different are we from our immediate family & ancestors. Sure, physically, we are unique & each generation faces challenges of their time, but are the responses & actions any different from responses/actions our forebearers. I personally feel my thoughts and actions are mere extensions of my ancestors. So, I believe I'm an accumulation of identity tethered to an unbroken chain that resonates back through time, a paradoxical feeling of fear & reassurance.
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something i have gathered from the beliefs of my religion, is that we believe that everyone has a pre-ordained destiny, but it is our choice to rise to it or not, it is up to our free agency if we become something glorious, like God wants, or not. a note, man cannot frustrate the work of God, man can only frustrate the work of man.
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"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience"
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