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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 45 points 8 months ago (6 children)

What’s wrong with being a desert dweller?

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mean yeah, basically, the idea of being the Mahdi and convincing the desert dwelling followers of Mohammad to follow you as a revolutionary army was a big trope for a while, king of the khyber rifles type books were full of it. Dune just rewrites Paul from being actual English aristocracy to being a near identical space facsimile, likewise Bedouin and Muslim stereotypes and tropes common in adventure lit make the Fremen. Big bad is mostly anti German tropes from ww1 era novels; corpulent, perverted, and sneaky.

The great imagination in it comes from taking this fairly standard formula and going totally crazy with sand worms and Duncan clones.

Though when you look at it like this it's obvious liet kynes is actually the linchpin of his creative vision and everything else is formed around that character

[–] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

He wishes he had that kind of desert power.

[–] pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I surmise it’s a socioeconomic prejudice. Like the American equivalent to the slur “hick” or the epithet “back woods”.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guess, but Moses spent 40 years wandering the desert and he doesn't get shit for it.

[–] Papergeist@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Died just before the exit ramp.

[–] Potatofish@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He's unknown so I can't worship him properly...

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Obi-Wan wants a word with you.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I say unto thee, takest the high ground, for then your foe shall know it's over before they strike

Book of Anakin, 2:7

[–] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 8 months ago

Id fuckin' read that!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He was pretending to be a regular dude named Ben. Probably not the best example of being known..

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Not the Allah you're looking for

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Not enough water and it is too hot.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

There are mirages in the desert