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07/10/2005 Entry: "Frank Herbert interview from 1969"
Frank Herbert interview from 1969. Long, but probably worth it for Dune fans, at least worth skimming.
WM: Bene (Bené) Gesserit, you pronounce it?FH: Bene (Benny) Gesserit, yes.
WM: Bene Gesserit. The...their whole mystique and so on is relatively unexplained. Why do they want the Kwisatz Haderach in the first place? You see, is relatively, at the time…
FH: The name of the game is power.
WM: Yes, and they want power. That…that explains it to a certain extent but…
FH: They want power in a specific way. You know, I’ve always been amazed by the statement or by the label of psychological warfare. There can be no such thing as psychological warfare…if you develop a psychological weapon sufficiently that it is destructive to any potential enemy, it will destroy you with the enemy…it’s a two-edged sword without a handle, and if you grab it hard enough to wield it, you’re going to…
WM: It’s self destructive.
FH: Yes.
WM: So we could have a variation of the Lord Acton notion: power corrupts both the user and the receiver of the power, both absolutely...
FH: Right. Acton saw it.
See also:
Wikipedia entry on Herbert.
