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"Dune is not an example of 'capitalism' gone awry. The political system in Frank Herbert's universe is Imperial Feudalism, and its economic system is explicitly Mercantilist. - 15:09

"*Dune* is not an example of 'capitalism' gone awry. The political system in Frank Herbert's universe is *Imperial Feudalism*, and its economic system is explicitly *Mercantilist*. - 15:09

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[–] • 2 pts

Frank Herbert was a pretty good science fiction writer who one day sat down and started to write a true literary classic, a novel that transcends its genre and even its medium -- Dune. It is a masterpiece. It is what every writer hopes and dreams of creating at some point in his career before he dies. Nothing else Herbert ever wrote even comes close to its greatness. It seemed to spring from nowhere, the way Athene sprange from the forehead of Zeus. There is a huge gulf between "good" and "great." Herbert's other novels, some of them, are "good" in the context of science fiction. Only Dune is great.

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Herbert gave significant context in interviews over the years. Dune was inspired by his own experiences in the Pacific Northwest, his time with Indians, and ecological movements of the time. Spice is oil, basically. Anyways, he can tell it better than I can, but my point is that perhaps Dune is his best work because it was motivated by his most interesting personal experiences.

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The new dune did away with white people.

All you need to know

[–] • 0 pt

The fremen weren't white. They were essentially feral people, not indigenous. It makes sense for them to be motley. Taking a desert planet and making it seem "desert" by adding brown people isn't a stretch either.

If Herbert had specified white it would be different

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A white man wrote a book about whirlte people for white people.

They didn't just make fremen nigers. They replaced house atriedes too with dews and Latinos.

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Honest question, did he REALLY do that? I have only seen the movies and read up on the timeline of the Dune cosmos. However, it seemed to me like Frank Herbert was heavily into fetishizing sand nigger cock, like the French do with Egypt and the middle east.

He comes from that generation where they had a mystical kind of view on the middle east and the sand niggers, which was a fertile time for the jewish propaganda about the "other / non white" being presented as a fetish really came into being.

Was it truly a book written by a white man for white people? In what regard?