Re: Amp's SoD Notes
Posted: 19 Jan 2012 07:35
I'm finding zero motivation to even pick the thing up again and riffle the pages. Haven't even done the customary sticking on of micro-chapter marking PostIts. (Did KJA reveal how many "chapters" are in this piece of shit?)
Here's a spoiler; something I was mulling over during my foray to Lowe's yesterday afternoon...
The Bene Gesserit determine, from their secret computers' combination of Emperor Salvador's genetics with ALL the (sociologically?) possible mates, that in just a couple of generations his line will create the greatest tyrant (you should perk up at that mention) in human history; his brother Roderick (or was that just Life of Brian? ) does not share the same defect, so they decide to have Sal's Suk administer a drug (topical? testicular massage?) that will secretly sterilize him.
What's bothering me is, could even FH's BG, thousands of years later, have made such a prediction based solely on genetics?
Sure, they later predict and strive to create the Kwisatz Haderach... but the KH's mental abilities are based in physical characteristics. (And therefore amenable to genetic manipulation.) But something like being a tyrant? Necessarily? Unavoidably?
I don't know, it just seems like another misunderstanding/misapplication of the plausible and the fantastic (meaning fantasy-silly).
It's going on two weeks since the signings now. I can't even find the umph to blog or Tweet about it....
Here's a spoiler; something I was mulling over during my foray to Lowe's yesterday afternoon...
The Bene Gesserit determine, from their secret computers' combination of Emperor Salvador's genetics with ALL the (sociologically?) possible mates, that in just a couple of generations his line will create the greatest tyrant (you should perk up at that mention) in human history; his brother Roderick (or was that just Life of Brian? ) does not share the same defect, so they decide to have Sal's Suk administer a drug (topical? testicular massage?) that will secretly sterilize him.
What's bothering me is, could even FH's BG, thousands of years later, have made such a prediction based solely on genetics?
Sure, they later predict and strive to create the Kwisatz Haderach... but the KH's mental abilities are based in physical characteristics. (And therefore amenable to genetic manipulation.) But something like being a tyrant? Necessarily? Unavoidably?
I don't know, it just seems like another misunderstanding/misapplication of the plausible and the fantastic (meaning fantasy-silly).
It's going on two weeks since the signings now. I can't even find the umph to blog or Tweet about it....