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As companies destroy the world in pursuit of profits that will never come, I welcome our Butlerian Jihad
(lemmy.world)
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
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
That was just the agricultural revolution kicking into a higher gear, like 4 or 5 gears ago.
You're right. The agricultural revolution that invented involuntary unemployment and transferred wealth from the peasants to the land owners.
Not as much as colonizer's