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That’s kinda the point though, the Bene Gesserit seeded a messiah narrative a thousand years before Paul got there. Haven’t read all of dune, but hearing people talk about it, it seems like Herbert is deconstructing the whole ‘chosen one’ narrative. It’s supposed to be fucked up.
Exactly, and there's a strong chance he only planned on doing the first two books but people didn't get this point so he makes it much more overt in the third and fourth books
Yeah, the whole project is about "Maybe superheroes are kinda bad." < timestamped link to NBC interview with Frank Herbert
E) So happy my 5k comment was DUNEposting
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