Re: Politics in Brian Herbert's Duniverse (Spoilers if you care)

Splicer wrote:

> Have been reading the Dune "House" prequels and am about 60 pages into
> House Corrino. They're an OK enough diversion although VERY padded
> with endless scenes that could easily have been left out.
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> The one thing I was wondering about was Brian Herbert's (or Kevin
> Anderson's) politics. The reason I ask:
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> In House Ateides, the Tleilaxu invade and occupy Ix, sending House
> Vernius into exile and providing one of the subplots for the series.
> The Bene Tleilax are aided by an uprising of Ixian "Suboids" -
> presumably genetically sub-human workers at the lower end of the Ixian
> economic system. These Suboids see the Tleilaxu as liberators but
> quickly learn that they have traded in one set of masters for another.
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> In House Harkonnen, there is a chapter that touches upon this in the
> narrative that basically states the point of view that the cruelty of
> the Tleilaxu and chides the Suboids about not realizing how good they
> had it under the Ixians.
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> Certainly a commentary about revolutionary politics but specifically
> about communism? Is Herbert saying that serfs should be happy in their
> lot because what might replace the system might be worse?

	Looking for themes or even plots in that mishmash probably is a waste 
of brain cells. Hell, better to pickle them in alcohol. All, IMHO.

WM