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  • Lumun@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlDunes vs Star Wars
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    6 months ago

    Definitely a huge overlap but mostly just because these are classic and great tropes from English-language literature. I doubt Dune was a major inspiration for WOT.

    Aes Sedai - Bene - Moirai/Weird Sisters Moiraine is literally named after the Moirai

    Paul/Rand are regular chosen ones with the foreign savior theme of Lawrence/Heart of Darkness added on for good measure






  • Not_Rick has a great answer but I will add something. Your question about the quote you posted is based on a disagreement about what race is, between you and social scientists. The phrase “we can take a DNA test and get our ancestry, telling us what percentage of what races make up our overall ethnicity” already assumes that genetics = race, end of story. But this is an unfounded assumption. All the test can tell is our genetics. Not_Rick offered some good examples for the counterpoint, that genetics ≠ race. If you disagree with that basic premise then you will always be bothered by modern theories on the subject such as CRT.

    Once you see that race clearly is not just genetics, you can start asking what it truly is and what things do determine one’s race. These are much more interesting questions. For example, a new question might be ‘what has been the historical relationship between ethnicity and “being white” in the US’? And let’s not even start on the ridiculousness that is the census form.










  • Circassia and that Greek Empire are both pretty bold predictions for 1863, along with a World Capital in Lisbon. I wonder what Dron would have predicted for Anatolia… maybe some sort of renewed Caliphate across the mideast? I think it’s interesting that Gdansk/Danzig seems to be in Germany but Konigsberg/Kaliningrad is in Poland. Seems like a pretty arbitrary straight line border there, I guess Dron couldn’t predict a border at our current one after Germany lost two world wars.



  • Thanks for your reply. I appreciate your personal take on the whole thing. As someone who has never been fat, I’m trying to figure out what’s the whole deal with the various movements around it. I feel it’s gonna become a much bigger cultural discussion in the next decade. And congrats on getting down to a happier weight for you! Setting and reaching goals is definitely something to be celebrated.