"In the end, Frank Herbert’s Dune and Dune Messiah serve up some of the oldest anarchist propaganda, not only by commenting on the corrupting influence of centralized power, but by spending nearly 1,000 pages to reaffirm one of anarchism’s oldest slogans: no one is fit to rule, and no one deserves to be a slave"
Not just Dune and Messiah. The core point of books 4-6 is the unraveling of the Golden Path. Its message: that peace, and society in general, have a tendency to mellow people. Established structures will decay, either in corruption and chaos, or in peace and stagnation. The Golden Path results in what Herbert calls the "scattering": one where a miryad of factions are too remote, too atomic to become part of a uniform society again. It is the opposite of the Empire in the first book. It is a form of multiple anarchic structures, designed to co-exist at best, or thrive through the pursuit of survival / beating competing factions.
Not just Dune and Messiah. The core point of books 4-6 is the unraveling of the Golden Path. Its message: that peace, and society in general, have a tendency to mellow people. Established structures will decay, either in corruption and chaos, or in peace and stagnation. The Golden Path results in what Herbert calls the "scattering": one where a miryad of factions are too remote, too atomic to become part of a uniform society again. It is the opposite of the Empire in the first book. It is a form of multiple anarchic structures, designed to co-exist at best, or thrive through the pursuit of survival / beating competing factions.