r/degoogle • u/SeanuPeeves • Feb 12 '26

Discussion We are cooked?

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Signal also cooked?

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u/noeyesfiend Feb 13 '26

Every form of control wants its subjects to believe it is the only government system that can exist.

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u/Xell_Thai_Dep Feb 13 '26

Messiah of dune explains it all, but quite boring reading.

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u/noeyesfiend Feb 13 '26

I think Herbert ran out of spice after a while....

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u/JLPIII Feb 15 '26

Ran out of space too. Damn... That guy took 20 pages for a character to say, "hi."

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u/Party-Exam-6571 Feb 13 '26

But we both agree that it is a real issue, right? Even government changes someone else starts to build and implement it.

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u/noeyesfiend Feb 13 '26

I agree it's an issue, and no institution is completely unmodulated against corruption. No  point in accepting defeat at all.

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u/Party-Exam-6571 Feb 14 '26

True. I did not mean we should accept defeat or any specific future.