Unfair to Paul, as he tries desperately to avoid jihad at every turn. In the end, he surrenders to the inevitability because he realizes his choices were always only illusions. The more power and the more understanding Paul accrues, the more clearly he realizes how little he truly controls.
I would more readily blame the Psycho-Historians from Foundation than the Muad’dib of Dune. Hari Seldon might not qualify as a twink, but he was more ready to embrace a little short term genocide for long term preservation than Paul, who struggled against it in vain.
Unfair to Paul, as he tries desperately to avoid jihad at every turn. In the end, he surrenders to the inevitability because he realizes his choices were always only illusions. The more power and the more understanding Paul accrues, the more clearly he realizes how little he truly controls.
I would more readily blame the Psycho-Historians from Foundation than the Muad’dib of Dune. Hari Seldon might not qualify as a twink, but he was more ready to embrace a little short term genocide for long term preservation than Paul, who struggled against it in vain.
Well, it didn’t say that he WILLINGLY turned into a genocidal dictator