I hope everyone will forgive me taking this week to break from our normal diet of history-and-pop-culture (though we are discussing a key historical concept here - it is me after all), but it is the July 4th weekend and I have been meaning to treat this topic for a while now. I must further … Continue reading Collections: My Country Isn’t a Nation
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Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part IIIb: Myths of the Atreides
This is Part IIIb of our four-and-three-quarters part series (I, II, IIIa) on what we're calling the Fremen Mirage. Last week, we traced the origins of this idea in the Greek and Roman ethnographic tradition. We found that the tropes that make up this concept - the poor, unsophisticated, but morally pure and militarily powerful … Continue reading Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part IIIb: Myths of the Atreides