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James Wakefield - The Political Theology of Dune

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

CHAPTER

The Importance of the Point of View

Benny Jesuit: The pragmatics of like peers, for example, I think very well are definitely there in the story. Job is singular because it refutes a simplistic stance whereby we believe in a kind of karmic destiny or moral order of the universe to kind of harmoniously, you know, good things come to good people, etc. It's very difficult to make sense of that just because we're not really equipped to look upon our problems from that sort of abstracted point of view.

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