THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD (War of the Thinking Machines in DUNE) EXPLAINED



Hey guys, whats happening? Niyat here with film comics explained. As requested, today we’ll finally be exploring The Butlerian Jihad, the long and bloody human crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots in Frank Herbert’s massive DUNE universe, expanded by his eldest son Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

In this video, we’re going to explore the human complacency that led to the rise of machines, the Butlerian Jihad (perhaps the most important event in human history), the rise of the feudal galactic order, and finally the conclusion of the 15,000-year saga.

To understand the Butlerian Jihad, we will first learn about the Titan Revolution and Rise of the machines that set the foundation for the universe humanity needed to fight back against.

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42 thoughts on “THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD (War of the Thinking Machines in DUNE) EXPLAINED”

  1. I misread this as "The bullet train Jihad" and thought, man, those Japanese are up to something again, aren't they? And the thumbnail didn't help my confusion. Though to be fair the Japanese probably had something to do with the Butlerian Jihad, so domo arigato Mr Roboto.

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  2. The novels where fantastic. Try using media to give a face to the characters and use words to form the true breath of tge story. Its extra memorable this way. I'd definitely stay with huuma until death. Sexy

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  3. I just yesterday reached the end of the sixth book in the main Dune saga, if you could call it that, and I have to say that Erasmus is probably in my top 3 for favorite A.I characters. In my opinion he is an entity of nearly pure intellect, driven almost primarily by a hunger for knowledge and experience, yet he has these human traits like humor, guilt, pride, enjoyment, humility and most surprising to me, if I’m not misreading him, yearning.

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  4. The prequel trilogy by Brian would make a really good series on films or big budget tv series. Sadly his writing isn't very good (unlike his dad) but the ideas and characters etc are incredible and unlike the original series of books a bit more grounded in visual story telling rather than ethereal concepts. I mean the whole idea about the disaffected "titans" who free the thinking machines and then the human resistance and resolution against them plus the birth of the Holtzman technology is really genius.

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  5. Where are all of the cinematics from? Did they produce them in-house, or are they from something else?

    If they did them themselves fucking awesome! If not, can anyone tell me where they're from?

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  6. Frankly? Dune as a franchiseis beyond overrated. Far from bad and absolutely worthy of praise, but still vastly overrated.

    However those that try interpreting the visuals should be given more praise and awards. Becuase that is the appeal of Dune. Seeing the Weird Shit on display.

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  7. Remember the jihad was called so after early SciFi authour Samuel Butler. His book Erewhon was a huge influence on Frank Herbert. There you'll find an early rejection of technology, the seeds of other memory and the guilds, as well as the fate of the precient and so many more bits which relate to the Duniverse. As it's available as a Librivox recording here on YouTube I suggest you give it a listen.😊

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  8. After a break of about twenty years, I just jumped back in at Dune Messiah.
    The more time that passes, the more relevant these books become.
    After all these years I’m still haunted by those closing scenes of Duncan in the hold, and the two beings: Marty and ???
    ”Doesn’t he know how thin he’s spread?” ( from memory )
    I just ache to know where he was going with that.

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