I haven't read the Dune series (I don't read much fiction at all). But Anders has and he has explained that it is about a more or less feudal social reality in an interplanetary environment. I'm hoping for the opposite: No feudal tendencies at all, because human labor will be the only significant resource. Feudalism was a thing because l…
I haven't read the Dune series (I don't read much fiction at all). But Anders has and he has explained that it is about a more or less feudal social reality in an interplanetary environment. I'm hoping for the opposite: No feudal tendencies at all, because human labor will be the only significant resource. Feudalism was a thing because land was the main resource and it is easy to make way over land. As I have written elsewhere, https://open.substack.com/pub/woodfromeden/p/capitalism-put-an-end-to-systematic?r=rd1ej&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web it is difficult to make war over labor because in a modern economy, free labor is more efficient than slave labor.
In sum, I'm hoping for a turbo-charged modernity consisting of self-governing charter cities populated by engineers. The opposite of the Dune series.
I agree the Dune series are dystopian. Also very complicated. The Golden Path is an idea that happens later in the series, after millennia of autocratic rule by a god emperor. Humanity spreads among the stars too far and wide to ever be contained again or brought under a single polity.
I haven't read the Dune series (I don't read much fiction at all). But Anders has and he has explained that it is about a more or less feudal social reality in an interplanetary environment. I'm hoping for the opposite: No feudal tendencies at all, because human labor will be the only significant resource. Feudalism was a thing because land was the main resource and it is easy to make way over land. As I have written elsewhere, https://open.substack.com/pub/woodfromeden/p/capitalism-put-an-end-to-systematic?r=rd1ej&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web it is difficult to make war over labor because in a modern economy, free labor is more efficient than slave labor.
In sum, I'm hoping for a turbo-charged modernity consisting of self-governing charter cities populated by engineers. The opposite of the Dune series.
I agree the Dune series are dystopian. Also very complicated. The Golden Path is an idea that happens later in the series, after millennia of autocratic rule by a god emperor. Humanity spreads among the stars too far and wide to ever be contained again or brought under a single polity.