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James Wakefield - The Political Theology of Dune
Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
Are You Just an Animal?
James: I think Paul has some interesting ties to our parallels with Moses. Freud has the book Moses and monotheism, his basic argument is that Moses was this Egyptian priest during the reign of Akhenaten. The tribe sort of, they kill him, they kill Moses and then they fill this tremendous guilt over his death. So they begin, they honor him by picking up his monotheistic religion. And that's a very slapdash way to wrap that up.
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