SOME HISTORICAL PERIODS fade, others end abruptly. For the United
States, the Technicolor-tinted era that began when the troops returned
from World War II terminated in an instant: 12:30 pm on November 22,
1963. The gunshot that took John F. Kennedy’s life ended a seemingly
innocent age, one that had restrained social and psychological
conflicts. What the future would bring, once those repressed elements
surged forth, was an open question.
An answer arrived in the next month’s issue of the science fiction
magazine/Analog/. The issue featured “Dune World,” the start of a
serialization of a long novel by the obscure author Frank Herbert. As
the story tumbled out in/Analog/’s pages, it forecast many trends that
would define the next decade: environmentalism, psychedelic drugs,
mysticism, orgies, back-to-the-land survivalism, Indigenous ways,
anticolonial rebellions, Arab nationalism, and political assassinations.
The story started with a Kennedy-esque hero, Paul Atreides, a
charismatic young leader from a venerable political family destined for
a high position within the galactic Imperium. And it ended with him
leading a jihad, backed by guerrillas and guided by drug-induced
visions, against that empire.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/heresies-of-dune/
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