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12 Jul 2024
The Bene Gesserit in Dune represent a globalist organization that is the catalyst for universal war.

What's the organization, though? The only organization in that whole entire universe. That goes in every single house. It's literally a globalist organization. Everything else is siloed. Every other house is sovereign to itself, loyal to itself. But their globalism is the catalyst for total, universal, galactic war.

17 May 2024
The Bene Gesserit use the Missionaria Protectiva to seed false messiah religions across the galaxy to protect their agents.

The first part is the Missionaria Protectiva is the Bene Gesserit arm that seeds the general messiah kind of religion, which is less about the messiah and more about if a Bene Gesserit shows up, you should treat her like she's a witch that's got superpowers. But she is. Well, exactly. I mean, you know, witch language aside, they do have superpowers. But at the same time, if you find a witch with superpowers, there's a good chance that thousands of people will probably murder that witch unless there's a religion in place to protect them in advance.

17 May 2024
The Bene Gesserit aim to breed the ultimate weapon, a god-like figure, rather than removing humanity's ability to fight.

So then their idea is we're going to breed it out of people. Except not really. No. Because that would be stupid. They're going to breed the ultimate weapon. Right. And then he's going to do it. I mean, it's crazy. Have a god as a weapon.

14 May 2024
The Bene Gesserit breeding program is a eugenics program designed to create a super being.

There was a thing, so it's just like a spiral inbreeding program that Frank Herbert's created that is super gross, but is meant to create the super being. Right. I get that conceptually. Right. Now the problem there, again, is where we get back to postmodern critical theory, is if you have a group of characters who start having a eugenics program... That's what it is, right?

13 May 2024
The Bene Gesserit fail at secrecy because their baldness and ridiculous outfits make them easily identifiable.

If you're a secret society, I could pick that Bene Gesserit out of a crowd. It does feel a little opulent for a secret society. If you're trying to be a secret society and everybody is keenly aware of who you are based on... You being bald and wearing ridiculous outfits. I think you're fucking up the secrecy part.

13 May 2024
The Bene Gesserit use the Missionaria Protectiva to plant religions that ensure their protection.

Now, the Bene Gesserit... Have been doing this thing called the Missionaria Protectiva, where they send people out into any place they want to go. Before they send to Bene Gesserit. And those people kind of go throughout the population and they give them a religion. They give them the same kind of constant religion that says, you should really be nice to the Bene Gesserit. They're super awesome. Take care of them, worship them, and give them everything. And then someday there will be the Messiah. Right? So the religion is what they use to kind of protect themselves throughout the universe.