Right! My apologies I forgot it wasn't until his son that the moniker was adopted. Mixing it up with 40k lore obviously.

The point of the book is that even the God emperor (the guy I was talking about, Paul Atriedes) doesn't get to make his own future. He gets to choose a future, which is incredibly powerful, but he never gets to make one that satisfies everything he would ideally want.

Edit: It's a subtle difference, but it is the driving problem through all of the rest of the Dune books, with future emperors growing increasingly esoteric and warped in their attempts to use spice to predict, and more importantly shape, the future, a path that Paul sees as unstable but inevitable.

Not bad for Cali. I remember when gas could be as high as 7 a gallon.

Dune is literally about how the future is not what we make it, but that we can and often become subjects to material and historical forces that are larger than ourselves, with events set in motion far beyond even our own birth, set by actors over whom we have no control.

Case in point, Paul becomes emperor, doing the only thing he could possibly have done in order to survive the revolution he started, but in order to do so he not only lost the trust of the only person he ever loved romantically (and who literally taught him to be the person who would become emperor) but also set the empire on the course of a genocidal jihad, all to simply preserve himself and house Atriedes, a path that, in the books, he constantly questions was the correct thing to do, even lamenting upon it, but never having the courage (or even ability) to stop the events that he himself set in motion.

Starting at Kant without going through Hume at least is a recipe for confusion. I don't even think starting with Hume works if you aren't semi-familiar with formal logic.

Yes let's go talk to 'Cubans' (are you really Cuban if you haven't lived there in 60 years?) in Florida, who have completely mythologized their actions and suffering at this point.

Also, dude literally has an American flag in the background of his picture, very not serious person

Unironically, do it. Let the flourishing of a thousand websites begin again.

I think the saddest thing about modern American engineering and tech is that they would all be fucking psyched about Chinese tech and cars if they were born in China. Like, the only reason these people are so blinkered about China is because they were born in the U.S.

They are so sure that they can see past the propaganda, that they are just eating shit the whole way down.

JP is literally the stereotypical dilettante that he says is miserable in his book. It's probably why he is so familiar with the topic, it's a self help book for himself. If you have ever seen any of his live streams, the man literally keeps a dirty office.

That said, all JP has inspired is school shootings and pressuring for sex, he is no comparison to the man around whom both the 20th and 21st century revolves.

I know this is the second time this shit has been posted, but most rail-less nations are not building railroads because they do not have the nessecery capital intensive industry to build railroads, let alone build a poor man's railroad and then redevelop it, because the world is being purposefully choked of development funds by the IMF and World Bank. God forbid demand gets fulfilled.

Imagine going from bragging that you are going to use JDAMs to having to deny that you used JDAMs. Absolutely absurd.

I've been watching the Ukrainian conflict off and on since 2014, you are fucking delusional. Fuck man, even people like Mearsheimer have been talking about this stuff for half a decade now. Fine, live in your bubble, it doesn't fucking matter what your or my opinion is, it's not like any of these processes are democratic in the slightest. Enjoy the show, war-piggie.