The spice must flow
My Arrakis
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The_Wumpus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
trashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Herbert was on spice when he was writing Dune in 1965 because how else he could see the future of the USA?
Jiggs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Possibly because history tends to repeat itself. Especially in case of US starting conflicts there. Could easily see the Operation Ajax being what he based the book on.
Flower@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Same with cyberpunk lore. Often that reads like current events, but in the end it’s extrapolation of events back then mixed with knowledge of history.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well the red flags have always been there from the beginning but the people chose to look the other way, considering the genocide of Native Americans had been a policy since the beginning.
Phantaloons@piefed.zip 18 hours ago
Look at its past.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Almost like America has been doing this for decades, regardless of which of the 2 parties are in power.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 minutes ago
The degree to which the O&G industry has co-opted the Republican Party cannot be understated. This only really took root under Ford, when guys like Bush and Cheney were promoted into the upper echelons of the political leadership while in the midst of converting historically Dixiecrat Gulf Coast states to the Republican Party.
Democrats were late to the party, having more heavily aligned with the NY-based Finance Sector and CA-based global shipping magnets. It’s been the outsized demand for energy in Silicon Valley that has really collapsed the Green-ish Democrats into O&G by way of Obama/Trump/Biden Era rapidly escalating demands for electricity. And even then, Dems are consistently in favor of generic economic growth while Republicans are hyper-fixated on O&G growth exclusively.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 day ago
Is there a drug that gives you visions of the future?
JustJack23@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Snorting crude oil
Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Peyote
dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Raw milk.
Dzheyk@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This made me giggle in the best way possible
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Whatever drugs he was on, I want some. Just like one or two doses. So I can forget about all this bullshit for a little while. 😮💨
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Listen, there may be a drug at the gas station called spice, but do NOT smoke it!
Akasazh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Will it help you forget or will it make you see every potential outcome?
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
We can resurrect this pile of shit
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Keeping with the story, of only Iran had a white savior to come and free them! /s
gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s well known that shrooms inspired him when he wrote the Dune series.
Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It was not known to me but based just on the description of melange and how Paul saw reality after taking it, it should have been obvious
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Harkonnen was only appointed to manage a war, and to decapitate the only threat to the imperial throne.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 minutes ago
The Emperor pitted two historic rival houses against one another, with the expectation that they’d annihilate themselves and leave room for upstarts to take their place. The Bene Jesuits had seen this cycle play out before and knew it would preserve the Emperor’s power at the expense of the advancement of the society as a whole. So, they backchanneled a breeding program between Atreides and Harkonen - on the Atreides side via Lady Jessica and Duke Leto, on the Harkonen side between Feyd-Rautha and Margot Fenring - to yield the prophesied optimal off-spring, the Kwisatz Hadarach.
But all of this ran afoul of a third agency, the Planetologists of Dune, who believed the planet’s perpetual condition of spice harvest was undermining what could be a new kind of Eden for domestic development and liberation. Their efforts to irrigate Arakus at the expense of the global galactic trade (catalyzed by Lady Jessica’s unlicensed male hier) was what ultimately undermined both the Emperor’s political schemes and the Bene Jesuits’ breeding program.
In the end, the primary antagonists of the Dune series are the environmentalists, fighting a guerrilla war against a Galactic Oil & Gas Industry.
Napster153@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Just like in real life!
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Frank Herbert and Philip K. Dick were high as fuck and they were creative but very fucking stupid
silver@das-eck.haus 1 day ago
Frank was on that Algerian cinnamon
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Corn. Beans. Why are hu-mans so tedious.
spacegoat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How big is his dick, canonically
binux@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
He’s got chode energy for sure
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Eh, not so much about history repeating itself or seeing the future. These things tend to happen when you have dumb cretins in power, that don’t learn from history. It’s dead simple to avoid a mistake if you read a book and someone else has made it and with the power of hindsight you have the solution now. But some people are even too dumb for that. Enter the world of Donald Trump.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I’m not saying you have to be on drugs to imagine space sex ninjas on cocaine planet, but I am saying something was on.
Anivia@feddit.org 1 day ago
Just your average dream when taking melatonin