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What are you afraid of? Worship, Gurney.
#previous tags:#this was SUCH a great inversion of a thing that always annoyed me in the books#which is the idea that after a certain point the holy war is just Going and paul can do nothing to stop it#which - whether or not frank herbert intended it or not - ends up kind of falling into the idea that wars Just Happen#because humans are naturally prone to tribalism fanaticism violence etc#whereas the denis version really goes out of its way to say that this is happening because of conscious choices made by people with power#choices made in complex historical circumstances sure but choices all the same#dune#dune part two#paul atreides