Ruling elites still subjugated the powerless under feudalism.
Cyan Banister#318
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"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."
The Dune universe is a feudal hellscape where the bulk of humanity is so powerless that Herbert barely writes about them beyond a “billions exterminated” here or there. They’re shackled serfs forced to make a few elite families richer but hey we stopped the evil computers amirite
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"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."
Ruling elites still subjugated the powerless under feudalism.
Cyan Banister#318I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"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."