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Really bad take. All stories borrow elements from other stories but this took it to a rediculous level.
Saying that Star Wars stole from Dune because both Paul and Luke are names that appear in the Bible or because they both used electric binoculars is nuts. And that's just a couple examples.
Lucas himself said he took elements of Dune and incorporated it. Everyone is forgetting Kurosawa too.
Can we talk about how most people don't read the rest of the books after Dune and come away thinking Paul is some kind of messiah figure? That part always gets me.
They don't even need the rest of the books to figure it out, the first book already makes it clear.
Plus Dune isn't like... The OG science fiction.
Herbert borrowed ideas from Asimov/Heinlein constantly, his concepts of humans achieving mental powers were in short stories written decades earlier. "project nightmare" by RAH for example includes ESP (extra sensory perception) operators who are able to do things such as remote viewing and suppression/detonation of nuclear weapons.
All stories borrow, even if the similarities are actually good and not just crap like "well they both have sand planets."