"But why is this happening now? Why are we responding to it this way? Because it's a warning. We have a masculinity crisis and the equal and opposite reaction to try and push men away from being men, and gender fluid, and push women to be gender fluid, what do you think is going to come out of that? Hyper-masculinity and hyper-feminity. That's what's going to come out of that." Tom Luongo
Is there a "masculinity crisis?" In so many ways yes. I try to articulate some of them as I see it here. https://t.co/ECjqHJXtOX
— Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) (@TFL1728) May 9, 2023
Why did Warner Bros. finally greenlight a proper adaption of the book, Dune? Why is one of the truly decent guys in Hollywood, Denis Villeneuve, the Director, how did that happen in maximally corrupt, woke Hollywood? And gets the greenlight to not only tell the first book, which is the fairytale of the young adult story of Paul Atreides of becoming a hero and a man and a father but also to tell the next two books where we see the jihad that he unleashes on the galaxy afterward. How does that happen if Klaus Schwab and all these evil, mustache-twirling commies got their thumb on the scale destroying everything? More appropriately, look at what happened with that film when the first one came out, in 2021.
It was a massive hit. Not just because it was a good movie, which it was, but because it was the right time for it, as opposed to 1984 when David Lynch made his version, campy though it may be, the story of Dune that Herbert wrote in the early 60s and published in 1965 and then the two sequels over the next decade, that whole cycle of story is incredibly powerful; it's incredibly important. It was incredibly prescient, it was way ahead of its time because it was telling us where this cycle of history ends. What are the Fremen? They are repressed masculinity that turns unbelievably toxic. Spoiler Alert: for those of you who haven't read the books, that jihad that Paul's worried about that you see flashforward in the first movie, guess what, it comes to pass. He can't stop it. They killed billions of people. They tear down the old system. And he's powerless to stop it. That's the story of Paul Atreides. Why are those movies going to be made? Finish the first book, then tie the next two up in the film, which is the right way. But why is this happening now? Why are we responding to it this way? Because it's a warning. We have a masculinity crisis and the equal and opposite reaction to try and push men away from being men, and gender fluid, and push women to be gender fluid, what do you think is going to come out of that? Hyper-masculinity and hyper-feminity. That's what's going to come out of that. And if you don't see that in Chani, Paul, and Lady Jessica, it's all right there in front of you. Herbert was absolutely spot-on with his depiction of it. What if Dune II makes more money than the first one? What does that say, right?
