“Without knowing the fate of Arrakis and Paul, the current Dune appears no different from Lawrence of Arabia (1962): the story of a proud if uncivilised people born in a coarse if rich terrain who await a white messiah to grant them the peace and freedom that colonising forces have long denied.
While the Dune saga starts as an allegory for colonisation, it ends as a warning against man-made ecological development and the danger of inherited myths.”
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