Post #806294

2023-05-31 20:12 UTC

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” —Frank Herbert, Dune

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@michaelgemar@mstdn.ca 2023-05-31 22:38

@todrobbins@social.coop @tchambers@indieweb.social I think the Butlerian Jihad was an overreaction. (And the powerful seem to have no difficulty enslaving others in the Dune universe.)

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@dendroica@ecoevo.social 2023-05-31 23:09

@todrobbins@social.coop "You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of themselves to do so, so that they no longer cared for the taste of the pale wind, nor for love or lust, nor to make new songs, nor to sing old ones, nor for any of the other animal things they believed they had brought with them out of the rain forests at the bottom of time - though in fact, so my uncle told me, those things brought them." Gene Wolfe

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@jpthuot03@mstdn.ca 2023-06-01 22:58

@todrobbins@social.coop Herbert was a visionary beyond belief... "It isn't that power corrupts, but rather power attracts the corruptible" -Muad'Dib

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