Deeply Thrilling Telegrams

If you haven’t read all 6 Dune books, the big lessons was the risk of centralization. The God Emperor (Paul’s son, half-man half-sandworm) saw The Golden Path like Paul did, and acted on it. The Golden Path is a narrow path in the multiverse that was the only way to prevent the extinction of humanity. It required him to become “The Tyrant” for 3500 years, controlling government and religion, being a fully centralized planner, so that people would experience the extreme of centralization. Then, when he died, when finally free from a truly centralized government humanity would scatter to the stars. The God Emperor wanted to “teach human a lesson they would feel in their bones” to avoid centralization. It was the only way to ensure humanity wouldn’t go extinct. Central planning and control always leads to stagnation. The Tyrant acted as a collar on humanity, showing them just how much they should not desire centralization, and when that collar was released, humanity finally underwent “The Scattering” and guaranteed they wouldn’t go extinct. As the instinct of centralized government and control and religion comes up in our real life, it’s important to remember the lessons from Dune. Decentralization is the way, The Golden Path.