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Frank Herbert (1920-1986) was an American science fiction writer most famous for his Dune series of novels. The Litany against fear is the mantra of a group of powerful women in the Dune books called the Bene Gesserit, who have achieved superhuman powers from mental and physical training. I haven’t read any of the Dune books, even though I know Dune to be considered the greatest science fiction novel ever. I guess i’m pretty intimidated by the mythology – it seems pretty hardcore, even for someone like me who’s read the works of Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison and watched the Star Wars saga countless times. From what I’ve read, the Bene Gesserit sound like Jedis … am I way off? Did I just ruin whatever science fiction street cred I had by asking that?

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  • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 day ago

    just had a maybe PTSD flashback so I’m sorry if this is inappropriate. not in a good mental state, and this is why.

    married an abuser for over 10 years it led my to 5 suicide attempts. been beaten, raped, gaslit, financially abused…

    now she has the kids and she’s doing that to them and I have the gears of justice don’t give a fuck because she’s a blond American woman and I’m a big scary middle eastern man. I don’t think I’ll ever get justice, all I hope to get is to be there to help my kids with the trauma I’m unable to protect them from. as long as ICE doesn’t kidnap me because I’m undocumented (she sabotaged the green card process to get me deported instead of divorced)

  • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
    27·
    3 days ago

    Other way around actually, Jedi are like Bene Gesserit. Dune came out first. I highly recommend the first book! One of the best political space operas ever.

    • Psionicsickness@reddthat.com
      11·
      2 days ago

      They aren’t really alike at all? The Jedi are space wizards that use magic. The Bene Gesserit use extreme conditioning and focus to read and command people. Oh, and they are basically responsible for some crazy barbaric acts in the name of eugenics, but I don’t wanna spoil too much.

      • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 days ago

        I definitely see the Bene Gesserit as Jedi inspiration, especially if you look at the early concepts of what Jedi were. I just think it’s fascinating how influential Dune was to Sci-Fi. Almost as much as Tolkein and fantasy.

      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, conversations in various locales with everyone’s favorite fascistic space worm was a fucking hard read. Also quit after God Emperor

        • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 days ago

          I have no idea why I liked that book so much, I miss their conversations. Of the 3 last books I enjoyed the 5th one the most (Heretics of Dune).

    • Dupelet@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      IK, but give the artist some cred seeing as he hadn’t read the books :)

      the first book!

      Oof.

      • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Oh yeah, an amazing comic. I thought the write up was yours, so I was responding, and it’s just interesting to me how many Sci-fi concepts Dune gave birth to.

    • sga@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      assuming your line of thought is not “everything is politics”, why is it political?, it seems to just bestory reflecting a abused person starting to face their fear? is that a left/right/liberal/conservative/communist/capitalist thing to do?

      • DaGeek247@fedia.io
        1·
        2 days ago

        It’s hot button topic in the same vein as the ‘alone in the woods with a bear or a man’ conversation. Maybe not politics, so much as a topic that might bring out the ‘not all men’ crowd real quick.

        Best keep the ban hammer ready, just in case.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
    4·
    2 days ago

    I couldn’t get to 10% of the first book. The constant internal dialogue is a massive drag. Every scene is like a bad Dragon Ball fight scene, extending for pages of internal scheming and internal drivel drama. It is a format that I wholly despise, and it’s about 70% of the text. The SciFi 2000 series and the new Villeneuve films are good, though.