Comment by madrox
2 days ago
Whenever I read the original novels, I always imagine the jihad to be a fairly benign if not peaceful exercise more akin to a protest than a war. Like if one day people started rolling across the world smashing data centers and laptops.
I was fairly surprised when his son wrote a novel that felt like a generic, bland robots run amok storyline that happened, more or less, because one guy/titan "ruined a good thing" by telling his AI to run in permissionless mode.
this is an interesting interpretation. i always imagined the jihad as being a violent struggle.
the other jihad in the first novel is that of the Fremen, which is described as being unspeakable violent, so I find it hard to imagine these to be different in that regard.
It's an interpretation if you ignore the impacts of feudalism, slavery, and religious war on Dune. The idea that people were able to express freedom of speech during a time described as the enslavement of 99.99% of the human race seems off-kilter.
the Fremen express freedom of speech despite overwhelming oppression
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