Filth @BenIsFilthy

Herbert is more nuanced (or conflicted) than this. He wrote Messiah (in part) to undermine the Paul as Great Man thesis. He was apparently discomfited by Paul’s reception on the part of much of his readership, which typically saw Paul as a hero. But Herbert was too smart to be content with the obvious thing (Paul = Great Man = bad). If you stop at Messiah, this might be your impression. But the later books show something else Paul has prescience. This is the product of a long Bene Gesserit breeding program; the sisterhood believed that humanity required a leader with the ability to see the future if civilization was to survive. Paul understands that prescience would create stagnation. Oracular power is a trap. It would rob humanity of choice and reduce humanity’s ability to adapt to the future Jihad emerges as the solution to this. It serves as an evolutionary pressure to force humanity onto a new trajectory. The tragedy of Paul is that he comes to understand his place within the larger pattern. His foresight enables him to see that the system has a greater intelligence or logic that is inhuman on the individual level. (Feel free to apply AI analogies here, though Herbert doesn’t explicitly do this). Paul is a free agent; he could choose to not act. But doing so would not solve anything. The jihad might happen anyway. Paul would certainly be destroyed. The outcome may very well be worse than if he did act. There are all these higher level logics and forces that are pushing humanity in a certain direction. The irony is that the man who can see the future is the most constrained. He isn’t exactly powerless but he has much less choice than it might at first appear. He is a creation of his circumstances, but must act within them. f Leto II, Paul’s son, evolves a fuller understanding of all this. He conceptualizes the trap Paul finds himself within. But whereas Paul eventually chooses the ancients’ final argument against fate - he walks out to his death in the great desert - to take back control over his destiny, Leto embraces it. He becomes an a-mortal being, and forces humanity onto the Golden Path, Leto’s strategy to break the cycle of humanity’s innate desire to be controlled (whether by charismatic leaders or vast social, historical, and economic forces. He was to "teach humanity a lesson that they will remember in their bones". The irony is that the only thing that can end the threat of Great Men is to become a Great Man yourself. This Leto II does with singleminded ruthlessness. All this is done to create the conditions for the Scattering, where humanity will seed the cosmos. By spreading far and wide, the threats inherent in a consolidated single “world system” or civilization will be avoided. Humanity will be too diverse, too wide spread, for a single crisis no matter how great to threaten it again So is the jihad necessary? Are totalitarian Great Men and great violence necessary? Herbert might actually say yes. It’s a core tension that he deliberately leaves unresolved

DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm

a week ago

Timothée Chalamet says the message of ‘DUNE: PART 3’ is to beware of charismatic leaders. “Frank Herbert wrote Messiah as he wanted to warn the world what can happen when people blindly follow leaders. Even the good can be corrupted.”

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We have plenty more Marvel coming for you guys!! HERE'S AN UPDATE! I present to you... Marvel Ultimate Alliance the DEFINITIVE COLLECTION! DOWNLOAD IN THE COMMENTS This is a complete pack, restored with compatibility fixes and quality of life updates for PC! It includes console exclusive characters, DLC, and remastered interface for both games! Have fun!😄

RohanKar @RohanKarMooN

a year ago

gofile.io/d/HMs6I7 Marvel Ultimate Alliance I + II (2006-2009) 50 Characters Hack and Remastered Interface Included [UA1] All DLCs are included [UA2] Done by @IriGloom Extract and Enjoy 😄😄😄

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@amatscomicvault That line really hammered it home for me honestly. Great stuff

“The moment you've all been waiting for is finally here! The battle of the ages starts now!” My UMvC3 tribute piece is finally finished. Debuting at EVO this year!

Season 8: Sins of Alchemax is imminent! 💥 The Gilded Saint may have purged the Time Plague from Lower Manhattan, but the root of the rot remains. Alchemax Headquarters stands defiant, shielded by a mysterious crimson Chronovium — fueled by a dimension of pure, kinetic force. The stakes have never been higher. Prepare yourselves - the Alchemax conspiracy goes deeper than we ever feared. Season 8 begins on May 15th UTC! Assemble your team and uncover Alchemax's darkest secret!

“Look & Find X-Men”, a Where’s Wally/Waldo style picture book released in 1992.

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ADVENTURE ERA

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Veemon (V-mon)

Mentally I am still here

@BenBrown01 Part of what she’s saying is right tho imo. When we were kids there were spaces for kids like Neopets and stuff. Those spaces are far less prevalent so now children just exist on Twitter & TikTok unregulated, exposed to stuff they shouldn’t be.

Genuinely comic book page of the month.

Check out this Cyclops necktie I did.

@joshtenet I been saying this for so long too. I feel like people who say X2 just watch the Nightcrawler scene and then skip to the credits cos holy hell it sucks

my most hater opinion is that First Class and Logan are the only X-Men movie that are more than fine

HAPPY SA2!! WOW I NEED TO DRAW MORE COOL SONIC STUFF I SEE

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I'm thinking, once again, on how much self-hatred Scott had in this era, purpose, the revolution was really the only thing that kept him moving...

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mainline pokemon animations

赤い猫 @neko_akai

a year ago

普通にトレモしてたら なんだこれww #スト６

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