Kana
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Bingo !
You got what I was thinking about, the spice is oil, the Fremen are the Arabs, the Landsraad is the rest of the world squabbling amongst ourselves to be top dog and oh btw, the Padishah emperors are the US, because they always hold power, the Harkonnen, erm, well, us, but what was Herbert getting at ? The Arabs and by that Islam is going to cleanse the world with a religious war, the Jihad ?
But as it appears Christianity has had it's day, it no longer features heavily on our lives and perhaps because of that morality has suffered, we seek material gain as opposed to spiritual gain, what's next ?
Islam is about 600 years behind Christianity, so if it follows the same pattern as Christianity, it has perhaps 600 years left to run before that is replaced by something else, he he, perhaps science and then we will all be rid of the hocus pocus and can perhaps move on. But if Islam becomes more moderate, which it stands to do, as even now it is moving that way in the west can we see it replacing what we currently have the lack of ?
Is the Jihad a return to morality ?
You got what I was thinking about, the spice is oil.
This. Herbert was worried about over-dependence on oil. Dune was based on eco terms. The warning line is when Muad Dib says, The people who can destroy a thing control it." It's his warning to the western world and could be seen as a call to arms for the 3rd world.
Is the Jihad a return to morality ?
I think Herbert makes it clear that jihad can be propagandized and made out to be a return to morality (And there's definite Emersonian transcendental ideals re the noble primitive/savage-see the line re "Wisdom comes from the desert, polish from the cities.") but that the main point of Jihad is to continue to propagate the species by a massive blending of the gene pool, something more akin to Tolstoys concept that people and events are just flotsam pulled along by the tides of history.
Stepping outside of that, Herbert blends in recognizable religions, (Zen sunni, OC bible etc...) blended with eastern taoist ideals and concepts (Prana bindu training, many of the Bene Gesserit skills) and runs them through a blender.
And of course, Muad Dib is just a re-telling of the Prophet, accompanied with a warning re politics and religion riding in the same applecart.
< Message edited by Kana -- 9/26/2011 12:58:49 AM >
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