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Written by salguod, man 🍂🍁 lazysupper on 2025-01-26 at 22:31

I saw a toot yesterday about billionaires regarding dystopian fiction as a business plan rather than a warning. 💰

I started reading DUNE last night. While not a purely dystopian work, this passage resonated with that remark:

“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.”

[#]scifi #dune #bookstodon 📖

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Written by David Marshall on 2025-01-26 at 23:03

@lazysupper

There's never a Butlerian Jihad around when you need one.

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Written by salguod, man 🍂🍁 lazysupper on 2025-01-27 at 00:07

@davidtheeviloverlord

I'm only on Chapter 3, so I've only seen the term mentioned. 🙃

(Although I did ponder about Herbert's use of the term "jihad" long before it became part of the common vernacular and how many readers back upon release were familiar with it.)

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