You, a primitive: "This is very clearly a critique of the even-in-the-1970s antiquated reliance on fossil fuels and the social ramifications of consolidating so much socio-economic capital within a tiny underdeveloped country. Duncan Idaho has a whole speech about the inherent trade-offs of spice production and global ecological development. It's right there in the text! You don't even need to do that much thinking."

Me, an intellectual: "Haha. Worm go roar!"

The story is an important allegory about the real world. It reminds us how I'm the culmination of human evolution and have magical powers

It’s like how we think humans are the “main” species on Earth, but ants or bees or some sort of marine life probably have a better claim to that