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> I don’t remember the consequences ever being particularly great for anyone. The point of Dune books, to some extent, is that the path laid out for humanity w
by antisthenes 3y ago
> I don’t remember the consequences ever being particularly great for anyone.
The point of Dune books, to some extent, is that the path laid out for humanity was terrible, but still the best possible outcome of all possible ones.
Of course we cannot verify it as a reader, but the trilogy alludes that genocide and despotic power consolidation and religious dogmatism were somehow necessary to prevent an otherwise even more terrible fate for humanity.
Whether that's actually true is left as an exercise for the thinking reader to ponder about.
- ahepp 3y agoTrilogy? There are six Frank Herbert books in the series. > Of course we cannot verify it as a reader, but the trilogy alludes that genocide and despotic power consolidation and religious dogmatism were somehow necessary to prevent an otherwise even more terrible fate for humanity. I agree that certain characters in the books believe this. I think it would be a massive oversimplification to suggest the series wants us to accept that uncritically.