It's astonishing how few people understood Dune.
It's as if they cannot reconcile the concepts of a good man and a bad outcome existing together.
This is the whole point of Dune. It is a cautionary tale about the merging of church and state, about the dangers of cults of personality, of idolatry.
If you think "Paul is bad", you've missed the whole point of the story, which is that structures of power have a life of their own, and they constrain those who wield that power.
If Paul were bad, then the possibility would remain that placing a good man in his position would lead to a good outcome. But because Paul is not bad, we are able to see the implication that Paul's position, not Paul's character, is what leads to the numerous bad outcomes of the books.
Being prescient, he sees this, and much of the story of him and his heir, Leto the second, is devoted to his struggle, not against external enemies, but the constraints of his own power and position and legend.
The "golden path" is dimly glimpsed thread of possibility whereby a good outcome for humanity can eventually be achieved, but it will come about as the result of the destruction of everything that Paul and Leto have built.
The fact that they strive for that outcome is a testament to their moral character.
This is why Tolkien hated Dune. It was a direct contradiction of the basic authoritarian theme of Lord of the Rings. In Lord of the Rings, power is simple; it is wielded by a central authority, and all must kneel. The only question is whether it is to be an evil authority or a good one, Sauron or the True King who has Returned.
There is no notion of a bureaucracy which has its own influence and character, nor is there any notion of bad outcomes from good intent, no notion that the world is complex, that outcomes are hard to judge, that suffering might arise from mistake as easily as from malice.
Just find noble king, place on throne, done.
In Dune, Paul IS the noble king, and the evil of his rule arises not from Paul the man, but from the institution of kingship itself.
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