Dune is not anti-tech… | technology under capitalism (www.youtube.com)

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Interesting look into Dune and the Luddites, and how technology can take two forms. Apropos permacomputing I think.

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[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 18 points 7 months ago

It is so funny that people think that Dune is anti tech, when in the books it is the teaching of a aristrocatic cult trying to bread an ubermensch using systematic killing and controlling marriages, while running the galaxy by creating and spreading religions. But a lot of people are like, Herbert must be anti tech, he made the space nazis say it is evil.

[-] Pilgrim@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, the inevitable negative consequences of achieving a superhuman and building a religion around him are also explicitly talked about in the books. Even with good intentions, Paul is the center of a maelstrom of violence

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