"GoTta gO fASt"

Yeah i've heard bad things about the prequels and decided to just stay away lol.

Dune was pretty cool! It was one of my first sci fi novels and i felt i didn’t understand it so well back then i really should get into reading the rest of the series but i hear it has diminishing returns?

I am incredibly biased because I am obsessed with this series, but I've read the first three books about 5 times now, and I felt like I found out something new about them each time.

I haven't read anything by Brandon Sanderson yet, although I have watched his lectures on you tube.

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How dare you im calling the police.

You will read Dune, it is inevitable. They all cave in the end.

I agree with you it's not a good text for teaching in schools, the language barrier makes it too difficult. I enjoyed a few of his plays that I've read but a lot of them just bounced off me as well lol.

"A flawed masterpiece"

The great Shai-Hulud, sandworm of Arrakis, may his passing cleanse the world

Hell yeah! The Dispossessed is a good read as well.

Same, let me know if you figure out how to finish something cause I need to know as well lol.

When I think about nature im reminded of that one scene in LOTR where Sam sees a star and it alleviates his despair because he knows that regardless of the outcome of the quest there will still be beauty untouched and unmolested. Whatever humans do to this planet life will adapt and take on new and unknowable forms in the coming millennia, and all of that life will be just as magnificent as that which capitalism has destroyed. And the thought makes me feel less anxious about the fate of the human species.

"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."

Yooo ive been using her videos too lately, ill second this recommendation.

ummmm sweety? We don't use the b*llionare slur around here, the term is "Person of Wealth." Please think about the effect your words have on others! ✌️😘✌️

I think this website legit has a problem with some colonial attitudes, like a peoples way of life should not have to be evaluated in terms of "usefulness" or "productivity" miss me with that colonizer shit.

I genuinely cant tell , is this a bit? Cause a persons basic needs being met should not have anything to do with whether or not they work.

It is incredibly colonial to disregard an entire culture by saying you don't see what "productive" work they can do for the state. Human beings do not exist to produce goods.

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Antinatalism as a philosophical exercise is quite interesting I think, however the misanthropy and child-hate that are sometimes co-morbid with the belief are uncool and counter-revolutionary.