There are a number of different things being conflated here. My inital statement was just acknowledging the lack of appreciation of the subtext behind the Butlerian Jihad. People are unironically embracing it, which I gather is not really how the event functions in Dune.

At the level of the text, none of those things you mentioned strike me as positive developments. They just siloed computation to a biological track and those biological resources are employed by those in power, which is the same problem in a different form.

This is an aside, but feudalism is not inevitable. The vestiges of it still exist, but capitalism largely upended it.

▲ ButlerianJihad 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The amusing thing and perhaps the reason I've embraced it as my username, is that people around here are bringing it to life in a certain way.

It may not prove to be effective or as momentous as the fictional one, but it began when I saw stickers slapped onto utility poles that read:

  DEATH TO CLANKERS

  BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW

And I stopped to read them (because they were posted in a neighborhood where my people's cultural center is) and I pondered the intents and methods of those who were slapping up stickers. Surely this was more than just an in-joke or coy sci-fi reference?

The next time I fell victim to the jihad was with a crop of Lime e-Scooters, again on a block where my people have established businesses. I wanted to rent a Lime. I found one with a full battery. I located it and tried to scan the QR. Guess what? The QR had been sanded completely clean. There was no code, no serial number, nothing to scan and no way to uniquely ID the conveyance. There was only a sticker slapped prominently onto its side:

  DEATH TO CLANKERS

  BUTLERIAN JIHAD NOW

At this point I began to suspect the initial aims and methods of the "real-life Butlerian Jihadis". It is sort of ironic that they should start so small, by denying micro-mobility to innocent consumers, but perhaps they will graduated to lighting Waymos and Teslas on fire.

	▲	chungusamongus 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is funny. I don't know. I always kind of cringe when I hear the term clankers. I know people often aren't serious but it seems like maybe we shouldn't be trying to invent new slurs.