

boone
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Trying to help build The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible



I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father.

This superficial interpretation not only misses the point of DUNE but inverts it. Frank Herbert was critiquing religious fanaticism (“jihad”). Paul became a symbol of resistance for the Fremen, but the story is a warning about how power and myth can easily spiral out of control.
















How is California even a real place?


EXCLUSIVE: Gavin Newsom promised to build a bridge for cougars and butterflies in the middle of Los Angeles. The project has turned into another boondoggle, with broken deadlines and costs exploding to $114 million. This is Newsom's bridge to nowhere. city-journal.org/article/califo…