Just to clarify, the leader is a “white savior” from that empire who’s dad died. Not one of the indigenous people. He was only able to take power because of the CIA/Benegesserit planting religious propaganda about said white savior.
Give it time. The Landsraad/Empire has only been invading for a few decades. We still have to wait for them to install the Harkonnens so they can look good later for replacing them with the Atreides before betraying them in a two-birds-with-one-stone kind of banana republic episode. That’s when the CIA sends in the elite, militant, cisgendered, heterosexual, white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant savior. Sure it will blow up in everyone’s faces like it always does, but it’ll generate a lot of value for shareholders until then.
The story is partly inspired by T. E. Lawrence. The name Arrakis is based on Iraq. Spice was based on oil. The emperor and his empire was based on the British Empire. The whole novel is a metaphor for the political situation in the Middle East in the mid and early 20th Century.
Just to clarify, the leader is a “white savior” from that empire who’s dad died. Not one of the indigenous people. He was only able to take power because of the CIA/Benegesserit planting religious propaganda about said white savior.
So this isn’t quite accurate but close enough?
Give it time. The Landsraad/Empire has only been invading for a few decades. We still have to wait for them to install the Harkonnens so they can look good later for replacing them with the Atreides before betraying them in a two-birds-with-one-stone kind of banana republic episode. That’s when the CIA sends in the elite, militant, cisgendered, heterosexual, white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant savior. Sure it will blow up in everyone’s faces like it always does, but it’ll generate a lot of value for shareholders until then.
And then becomes the hegemonic dictator forcing their rule on others.
The story is partly inspired by T. E. Lawrence. The name Arrakis is based on Iraq. Spice was based on oil. The emperor and his empire was based on the British Empire. The whole novel is a metaphor for the political situation in the Middle East in the mid and early 20th Century.
Yup, I’ve read it 6 times by now. His basis for Dune is really easy to expand to any colonial imperialism though.