Hmmmmm... The Victorian view of other cultures was that they existed to affirm the essential rightness and ineffable superiority of the English aristocracy's divinely-ordained estate. Frank Herbert had a far more questioning, scientific and cynical mind than your typical Victorian, but I would suggets that he applied these qualities to the origins of his hero's superiority, without diluting or subverting the fact itself.
Witness that there seems to be no atheism, cynicism or countercultural rejection of the pervasive superstition and patriarchal religious order of Fremen society, despite the author's explicit acknowledgement of an advanced native capability in chemistry, materials science, ecology and engineering.
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Date: 2010-01-10 10:03 pm (UTC)Witness that there seems to be no atheism, cynicism or countercultural rejection of the pervasive superstition and patriarchal religious order of Fremen society, despite the author's explicit acknowledgement of an advanced native capability in chemistry, materials science, ecology and engineering.