Wait, pineapples have seeds?! Damn, you just messed my head real good

Isekais are getting whackier huh?

Not an urban legend, but the whole "butlerian jihad" background of Dune. It really made me think about technology.

I always imagined the times before the jihad not as a terminatoresque apocalypse but rather as a really advanced civilization with similar problems to ours. People connected to their machines (like social media) and the ones in power wielding the power those machines enact over hummanity.

The jihad for me is not a war between man and machine. I imagined it more as a social uprising, a rebel movement to abhor the control of a few over hummanity using technology. There was violence for sure (Haven't read brian's books) but is not your normal "machines bad" war.

Off course after 10k years or more, the people of dune only remember the "machines bad" part. But the way society is made up and what people can achieve in dune, tells me that hummanity wanted to trascend what machines could do.

So, you telling that when I eat three burguers in a row im just following mother nature? Interesting

These types of novels are called epistolary novels, they are written as a series of letters between people.

The book "Dangerous liaisons" also does this. It even comes with a foreword from the author stating that the following letters are real conversations between french nobles, so that he had to redact some names and exclude some of the more explicit letters.

How were the periods between changes of power? For example, I've been reading about alexander the great, how he conquered a lot of territories. What would happen to the common people in, let's say, central asia when Alxendar defeated the former power?

I know it would be different for every place and for every moment, such as when the western roman empire fell, or the ptolemies went to egypt.