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As companies destroy the world in pursuit of profits that will never come, I welcome our Butlerian Jihad (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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For those unfamiliar the Dune series, the Butlerian Jihad was a crusade against “thinking machines”. Ultimately computers, and intelligent or thinking machines, even down to calculators are destroyed and banned. Humans who are trained in complex mental maths become known as Mentats, a sort of human computer. Just, uhh, leave all that shit on Bene Tleilax, with their Axalotl Tanks out of it.

Edit: had wrong planet name. IX -> Bene Tleilax

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[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Fascinating, I never heard about that, so my causality chain only accounts for starting at:

Repeal of Fairness Doctrine

Water Gate

Frost / Nixon

Reaganomics

Clinton

Glass Steagle

Clinton Impeachment

Bush

NCLB

Plenty of details in between, I definitely want to fill out the timeline with as much detail as possible.