Comment by superkuh
2 days ago
The Butlerian Jihad is a reference to samuel butler's 1872 proto-scifi satircal novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon which talks about a society that had a machine intelligence uprising and so banned all complex machines.
This is literally spelled out in the page you are commenting upon. Didn't you read it first?
I did not. Erewhon is just one of my favorite books so when I see a thread about Dune I tend to talk about it. Normally I'd read the link but this was a generic "Fandom" wiki page and unlikely to be very useful to read.
Hint: do so in future.
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