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It's about a marginalised community's manipulation by a cynical religious cult, which indoctrinates them to await a messiah, then provides them with that messia
by simonh 5y ago
It's about a marginalised community's manipulation by a cynical religious cult, which indoctrinates them to await a messiah, then provides them with that messiah in order to usurp power over their entire society for the cult's own nefarious ends.
- zaphar 5y agoYour forgetting the surprise twist though. The cult loses control of that very society in part due to that very indoctrination.
- simonh 5y agoWho could have guessed a psychic messiah would be hard to control.
- goatlover 5y agoThat and breeding a super being into existence, which makes the Golden Path necessary. Although, the Bene Gesserit may have thought they were doing all this for the good of human kind. Considering the kind of ossified, medieval structure in place for thousands of years they had to work with.