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Dune redux

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I last mentioned Dune several years ago. It’s said history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme (like so many quotes, erroneously attributed to Twain), and here we are nine years later. Dune 3 is coming out later this fall, and that prompted me to reread Dune Messiah that I last read in college, which in turn led to Children of Dune, the next in the series, from where this comes.

A large population held in check by a small but powerful force is quite a common situation in our universe. And we know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers—
One: When they find a leader.

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The Stain Remains

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Around the country he flew, reckless and audacious, stopping long enough to make a new charge, to exhibit a new list, a good newsworthy press conference at the airport, hail-fellow well met with the reporters, and then on to the next stop, the emptiness of the charge never catching up with him, the American press exploited in its false sense of objectivity (if a high official said something, then it was news, if not fact, and the role of the reporter was to print it straight without commenting, without assaulting the credibility of the incredulous; that was objectivity). It was like a circus; he was always on the move, his figures varied, his work was erratic and sloppy, he seemed to have no genuine interest in any true nature of security.

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Don’t Be A Leech

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Teaching does not always feel rewarding. It doesn’t need to be. It is a repayment of something that was done for you. It is not a good thing that you do; it is an obligation that you have. If you are not preserving and expanding your trade, then you are a leech, and you do not deserve to prosper in it.

So…

Whom have you taught, lately?