This essay started in the fact that the new Dune movie was so very different than 
the first. I went back and read the edition of Dune that I had bought used, but that wasnít the original book I had read in the late 60ís while in college. I read the ìTactics of Mistakeî in some where near the same time span. Both Herbert and Dickson went back from their original masterpieces. Herbert changed his to become more literary and Dickson changed the Dorsai to make a messiah like hero. It is the concept of the messiah superman that has bothered men from George Bernard Shaw to Herbert.
In our future we face gene manipulation to produce superior people. There seem to be all kinds of reasons to try to make Mozarts on demand. The Nazi thought it was a good idea, too, that should be one thing that makes us more careful of such concepts!
 So what do we demand of our supermen? Miracles would be nice?! Messiahs to lead their peoples to freedom and new heights of culture.  We have had Moses, Christ, Mohammed, Buddha and Gandhi who all started religions or political movements. Have we ever as a people become more like such supermen ourselves? Would mothers if given the choice have babies that might grow up to be such men? I really doubt it. It is safer in the crowd and less risky. Men like Julius Caesar often die by violent means. Suppose we can get a dna sample of such men and clone them. 
Or even cross a Mozart with a Riemann to get even better genius in the result? We are at such a cross road in our science. We know that Stephen King is a genius who is alive today. We also know that Steven Weinberg is alive and we could get his dna, too.
Would we want a cross between two such men? Yes, we naturally produce a small number of people who are very close to supermen already. Should we start a sperm bank for Nobel prize winner or Fields metal winners? How about Olympic decathlon
gold metal winners? Or maybe we should clone Tour de France bicycle race winners?
Do we aim at the body or the mind of a God or both? In terms of body we might be better to start at a primate level, since they are much stronger than we are? An Ape with the mind of a mathematical genius who can throw a ball further , more accurately and faster than anyone maybe?  And heís got to be very tall, for sure. blue eyes and blond hair and a straight European nose... we design a human then on beauty, strength and intelligence? So what did Gandhi look  like and how strong was he? Einstein was not a pretty fellow. Mandelbrot isnít a very likable guy face to face either!
Why have the rest of the human race killed off so many of these naturally produced ì supermenî? Should we think it would be different if we turned them out in larger numbers to demand? We are just going to produce wars where one group follows  one of them against another of them? Such men donít fit well into the jobs society has for itís people: has anyone ever seen an add that reads charismatic genus able to run marathon races for a high  salary  level ? Creating more supermen will not help solve our social problems; it will probably create more difficult problems! 
 Suppose we create great poets?  They still canít get their works published and read! When a John Lennon shows up and combines great poetry, great music and a political point of view, he is assassinated. Would twenty people like him be easier to control? 
 Suppose we try for the perfect soldier as the Dorsai did? And what would success lead to? Wars in which normal people havenít a chance and are slaughtered?
The messiah of Dune was a drug induced ìseerî  who could control how the future came out by seeming the time lines in waking dreams and he used it for gain in war, wealth and power , but his followers couldnít become more like him because he was the result of a genetic breeding program!? 
 These naturally supermen that are our geniuses are not what we might think they should be. They donít often behave by our rules. Anarchy is not a pleasant alternative to a calm ordered society. Asimov in his linked time line series about the robot s and a controlled history of mankind was very much against  the idea of supermen since they too often result in social upheaval and uneven historical cycles of  wars , famine and cultural declines. If we go out of our way to manufacture more, who will dig the ditches and collect the garbage? Will their become two human types or classes? The ìgiftedî genius class and those who only live to serve them? We certainly already have such class distinctions that are very hard to overcome. In England they have the result in the likes of Prince Charles and we in our elite like Clinton. I have met a humble gardener from Mexico who is more admirable to me than either of these men! So what we have held up as standards for what men should be may be a basic cultural failing and if we manufacture people to those specifications, we may be in for more trouble than good. 
 I would rather trust the wheels of natural chance than have my genetic code picked by some social committee to meet their idea of what a man should be. We have had antiutopias like ìBrave New Worldî to warn us. I think that as much as we like Dune and the Dorsai books, we have to realize that a messiah is Godís work, not that of man himself.