@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
Post #2372904
2026-05-10 18:40 UTC
@Wolf@social.incognoble.com
Great book! Nice quote!
I found this passage relevant to Trump’s US Imperium & its own rapidly emerging “precipice”:
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late”
#US #Dune #Herbert #Trump #Religion #Politics
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@Wolf@social.incognoble.com 2026-05-10 18:41
@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social I did note that passage with great interest. Odd that we were warned and crashed onward anyway. If only people in charge read a book now and then.
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@mrt181@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 19:04
@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social @Wolf@social.incognoble.com "Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required." Bene Gesserit