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James Wakefield - The Political Theology of Dune

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The First Long Term Planner in Human History

Lito is the first truly long term planner in human history. He understands that and knows how to use that to his advantage. The idea that that Lito's reasoning can be thought of in terms of securing a future in which humanity survives or perhaps thrives, I think that goes to what Coop's talking about with anthropocentrism and vitalism. But at least it makes clear to me sort of why some of the things Lito does are obviously on the face of it, you know, disgusting, in a certain sense, morally reprehensible from an individual sense.

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