You will notice that in Dune they've got rid of computers but not slavery
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aug 24, 2025, 4:19 pm • 0 0 • view
…or the genocides.
aug 23, 2025, 9:22 am • 4 0 • view
When it was written they were barely beyond clockwork behemoths
aug 23, 2025, 8:42 am • 2 0 • view
That should be a pullquote on the cover.
aug 23, 2025, 8:10 am • 2 0 • view
And that’s the point Herbert was making! Machines were bad because they allowed “other men with machines to enslave” the people that turned their thinking to machines. Dune is about oppressive human institutions, caesarianism and despotism
aug 23, 2025, 11:26 am • 7 0 • view
Book 5: ok ok we will bring back the computer. We won't bring back the internet, but we will make furries real.
aug 23, 2025, 10:55 am • 0 0 • view