Dune Series PHD Episode 32 Pardot Kynes and Liet Kynes: The Planetologists of Dune
Channel: Doc Sloan's Science Fiction Station
Date: 2021-10-17

The two characters who use and manipulate the Fremen to achieve their ecological dreams are Pardot Kynes, and then his son Liet. Pardot features in an almost mini adventure contained within the appendices of Dune, and it is here that we learn of the Planetologist's dream, and how it becomes religiously entangled with the mythological dreams of the Fremen.

One of the rare examples of the Faufreluches system in action, Liet is a planetary ecologist because his father is one. These characters are part of the warnings Herbert is trying to instil in his readers. The Kynes men represent Western Man, and the assured belief that all problems can be solved using systems and systemic thinking. They are heroes to the Fremen, revered and obeyed. They use the Fremen without care of remorse, and it is ultimately their ideas that bring death and destruction to Arrakis.

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