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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's even still a rhetoric I hear by other leftist. I get that the cost of a higher education is a scam. But the education is not.

I also genuinely believe that humans have a lot of intellectual potential but that most never get to reach that.

Early life obstacles. Lack of opportunities. Lack of motivation.

These keep the people stupid and docile.

I rarely meet people who like to just learn things for the sake of learning.

I have 3 nieces and a nephew. Only the nephew is interested in many things.

The nieces couldn't care less and spend their time on their phones watching 5 second videos about nothing.

No attention span. No motivation to do anything.

It's quite sad. My nephew is the youngest. And I hope I don't see him shift to the same patterns.