mos_8502 :verified: on Nostr: The book makes it explicit that Paul isn't a prophesied messiah or hero, he's nakedly ...

The book makes it explicit that Paul isn't a prophesied messiah or hero, he's nakedly taking advantage of the *Missionaria Protectiva*, a social engineering policy of the Bene Gesserit, in which they spread myths and legends and false prophesies among less-advanced cultures to make them potentially useful resources to stranded Sisters, and he's doing it in order to take revenge on the Empire that murdered his family and specifically the Harkonnen and Corrino houses directly responsible for this -- and is soon aghast at what his revenge costs, because the movement he used to get his revenge rapidly outgrew his control, as it *always* does.