The video ends before we hear his answer. Does anyone know what he said?
WTF is all the mention of Ann Rand in the comments? Is she the only female author any of you know? She wrote the equivalent of high concept fantasy novels that for some strange reason too many people have decided to champion over the years. It's like trying to relate the 'lessons' in Dune to our lives and get actual meaning. Rand was a hack who got more attention than she deserved.
It's like trying to relate the 'lessons' in Dune to our lives and get actual meaning
Warriors rule in the end, because priests can't handle uncertainty. Be bold.
Also the only way to defeat the machines is become psychic and run a meat sack simulation for thousands of years so that you can merge with them and make them understand humanity enough to not wipe it out.
Dune was exactly about our current situation and about our ecological, theocratic, political, and cultural struggles and how different group are vying for control through lies and deception and raw power and none of them know what they are doing. Did you even read the books?!
Of course, but the same can be said of probably any book you care to think of. Those themes are good story material exactly because we can relate to them. But Herbert was not writing Animal Farm. Besides I was thinking about the mystical shit like the prophecies and whatnot; 'lessons' was probably a poor word choice.
Feel free to replace Dune with LOTR if you makes you feel better. My point stands.
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