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James Wakefield - The Political Theology of Dune

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Messiah Is a New Game Plus

Lido too, is what is he but universal spirit? I mean, kind of literally because of all the memories that he has access to. He's trained marshally, not only in weaponry by Bernie Halleck, but by his mother through the Pranabindu training of the Benny Jeserit. So a new game plus. And I think this is why reading Messiah is such a shock from going to do. You think you're getting a kind of hero story about Paul and then Messiah flips that on its head again. It's gloomy, isn't it? Yeah. The ambivalence of, you know, well, hey, this is actually Paul as an anti hero

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