The grim truth is that the rich are ABLE to LIVE as they do only because others are POOR: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for EVERYONE to pursue PRIVATE luxury.

I've got two BROTHERS. One's older - the artist - and then my YOUNGER brother is an ecological economist - a FARMER.

While DESIGNED to visually seduce, Dune is not PRIMARILY a FORMAL EXERCISE but a social, ecological, cultural one.