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As companies destroy the world in pursuit of profits that will never come, I welcome our Butlerian Jihad (lemmy.world)
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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 IX, with their Axalotl Tanks out of it.

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[–] logi@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Since we're talking sci-fi, this is Asimove in 1980:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

♥️ That's one of my favorite quotes of all time.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think it's accurate to say it's always been there, in fact I believe it didn't really start in it's current form until 1971 or so, by design, although it existed before as it does elsewhere, that was the turning point, where big business huddled up and made a long game to seize power, project 2025 is just the recent iteration of that game plan, formed initially by the Business Roundtable.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I mean we burned witches in the dark ages right, so the behavior dates back at least as far as that.