Herbert attempted to sell his books as anti-messianic: a narrative caution against deifying political or religious leaders for fear that they might turn out evil.
Unfortunately, he created a world in which a messiah—and a tyrannical one at that—is metaphysically necessary for the survival of the species. Paul Atreides and his scions can see the future, and are compelled to commit grave evils for the sake of a greater good that they alone can foresee. This is the claim every strongman makes, but in the case of the Atreides, it is actually true.
Herbert constructs the one world in which blind political messianism might actually be merited.
Timothée Chalamet says the message of ‘DUNE: PART 3’ is to beware of charismatic leaders.
“Frank Herbert wrote Messiah as he wanted to warn the world what can happen when people blindly follow leaders. Even the good can be corrupted.”
Erdogan was a genius for doing this. This one act exposes the entirety of the European NATO members as nothing but giant pussies.
You're there to represent the interests of your nation-state in a military alliance. You're talking about war. Killing the enemy.
The leader of the nation hosting the summit gifts you a revolver. And your nation is so cucked, so feminized, so flat out WEAK, that you can't even keep it.
Masterful 200 IQ play by Erdogan.
Belgian PM Bart De Wever unknowingly brought home a loaded, personalized revolver gifted by Turkish President Erdogan at the NATO summit.
The gift wasn't opened until the delegation landed in Belgium, where they discovered the gun and ammunition.
The weapon was immediately
Average red state conservative: “I respect everyone’s opinions, believe in the free market, and want the government to just leave us all alone.”
Average blue state conservative:
It's because of the basic psychologies of fascism and communism.
Fascism is a disgust spiral, whose basic commandment is "thou shalt not be worse than me." It starts out with anti-smoking campaigns and burning child pornography, and ends up disappearing anyone who doesn't mow his lawn.
Communism is an envy spiral, whose basic commandment is "thou shalt not be better than me." It starts out targeting captains of industry and genius intellectuals, and ends up disappearing anyone who wears glasses, which create the suspicion that he might have read a book once.
This is why people with communist psychology (the left) equate clean streets with fascism.
Leftists can't keep their streets clean and their lawns mowed, but instead of the psychologically healthy response of being slightly embarrassed and resolving to do better, they decide that anyone in a nice neighborhood is a fascist who needs to be exposed and purged.
You, oh right-wing conservative, watching this video clip, think that leftists are accidentally pointing out the benefits of fascism.... i.e. that people can have nice things.
But if you understood communist psychology, really understood it, you would realize that the mowed lawns, clean streets, and neatly-groomed people are actually another accusation.
Not only are they racists, complains the narrative, they have nicer houses and neighborhoods than you. How dare they?
How dare they not be surrounded by trash and graffiti?
How dare they not be awoken at 3 AM by their drunk neighbors blasting loud music?
Who do they think they are, some sort of superior race?
You don't notice that accusation because you are not the target audience. The target audience is people prone to destructive envy, and the goal is to recruit them to communism.
They don't care if you think this points out the benefits of fascism, or even just the benefits of racism. Because you are not prone to destructive envy, so they can never recruit you anyway.
And it makes no difference if you point out that the end result of this is that every neighborhood is covered in trash and graffiti.
That's what commies want.
Why? Because their neighborhoods are always going to be messed up no matter what ideology is in control. Fascism, communism, liberalism, objectivism, doesn't matter. They are not disciplined enough to do battle with entropy through sustained effort, and not creative or intelligent enough to do battle with entropy through innovation.
But if their house is inevitably going to be surrounded by mountains of trash, just because of who they are, then the greatest comfort they can aspire to is a world where your house is surrounded by trash, too.
This is why communism ruins everything, and why communists cannot be dissuaded when you point this out. Ruining everything for anyone who's better off is what they want.
The trick is to get them to realize that communism allows anyone who is even worse off than they to ruin whatever they still have. Which isn't easy, because if they were smart enough to easily understand this, they wouldn't be surrounded by trash in the first place.
3 blacks attack a drunk white kid in Birmingham, the female police officer comes in to protect the violent blacks and arrest the white kid
Absolutely disgusting the way white people are treated in England (@KnockoutAudit)
Just watch this entire scene.
If you can’t see this is BLATANTLY a PSYOP to manipulate you against Muslims then you are a fucking idiot of the highest order!
Fun Fact:
While America’s usage of the wings outspread bald eagle predates Nazi Germany’s, both usages of the imagery originates from the Roman Empire that both of our nations rightfully claim ancestral and national heritage to.
And the hatred for the imagery typically comes from non-Whites who, for centuries, have been crushed by superior White military forces fighting under that same imagery.
Alex Cole’s blood hatred for the imagery is as hard coded into him as my blood love for it. Because my ancestors crushed his for centuries and something within him still knows that.
@mattforney Was about to post some shit about humanely reducing their fertility rates and just letting them die out until I saw some subhuman vermin gloating in the replies about "taking yt jobs" and I remembered that these embodiments of filth deserve nothing less than our utmost hatred.
@PezunCityDJs I think the people who’re concerned for Roman’s well-being aren’t registering that this isn’t some normal kid placed into CDPR’s universe. This kid is most likely Night City born and raised, he’s probably sick in the head long before the story starts, and I can’t wait to see it.