From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 18:56:16 MST
--- Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> Apparently this Frank Herbert miniseries was shown last week in the
> US.
> There's a certain irony, I suppose (desert warfare, the frailty of
> forecasting the future, `the [x] must flow', etc). Leaving that
> aside,
> what's the reaction of those extropes who've been viewing it?
I have appreciated both this miniseries as well as its DUNE predecessor
produced for SciFi. I prefer them both to the abominably operatic movie
version produced in the 80's.
I would dispute that the message of the DUNE series is anti-west.
Instead, I look at sea-bound Caladan as a British analog and high-tech
Ix as an American analog. The Harkonnens are the Soviet thugs with
their dirty industry and sadistic tyranny, as well as the fascist thugs
that rule much of the muslim world. The Imperial government of the
Landstraad and the Corrino family are the UN and the arrogant
internationalist elite.
By this comparison, the Atreidies and their Ixian allies, like the US
and Britain today, liberate the fremen (muslim street) from the
undemocratic tyranny of the Harkonnens and the corrupt internationalist
elites that keep them in power for personal aggrandizement (spice).
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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