In order to make his fictional universe as real as possible, he made the history of Dune world as complex and with many similarities as the history of our real world. For example, it is no coincidence that the planets mentioned in the story were unified under the emperor and organized in a fief system. Centuries before Dune began, when humanity was driven to the brink of extinction by robots and finally managed to turn the tide, the survivors of the war (later known as the Butlan Jihad) decided to ban the development of artificial intelligence. This decision - "You shall not build machines to imitate the human mind" -
became the central commandment of civilization popular database moving forward, and it explains why the society in Dune is not as advanced as one might think. Culturally, the Butland jihad also seems to have returned society to a semi-medieval state. Readers, for example, might be surprised to find in the story that religion is still alive and well in the distant future, even playing a more important role than ours—humanity combined all "Old World" religions into a single humanitarian text. The text, known as the Orange Catholic Bible, is one of the most influential works in the entire Dune world. Its spiritual teachings are a combination of a series of monotheistic and polytheistic religions that serve as guiding principles for
how citizens of the Empire should behave and progress. The highest commandment among them, "Thou shalt not destroy your soul," is a variation on the lessons learned from the Battle of Bartram. 1 2 » Read the full text Don't want to paginate? Try our new service you may also like Lu Xun's "On the Bell Tower (Night Tale No. 2)": "In order to flourish in culture, there must be some allowance", which is generally true according to my experience. "Extreme Return": This is one of the most scientifically convincing science fiction novels I have read with alien settings The Misunderstood "Dune Castle" (Part 1): a bad movie? From the perspective of mainstream sci-fi blo