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>>19312001
It's really more about free now that I think about it.
The golden path was necessary due to the events that are seen through prescience and not fully realized until after Chapterhouse: Dune.
Without the Golden Path, humanity stagnates: it grows ever more dependent on melange and Arrakis, on the Spacing Guild, the Bene Gesserit, and the other powers-that-be. Realize that, through the control of melange and the Kwisatz Haderach breeding program, the main powers of the Dune Universe literally control humanity's continued evolution.
Paul Muad'Dib and Leto II both foresee the final destruction of mankind by an unknown power due to its complacency. So, Leto attempts to instill such a hatred of the centralized power structure that's at the heart of humanity's stagnation so humans would do everything in their power to "scatter": to go to the farthest reaches of the known Universe to avoid being tied to one central authority. This causes the established powers to lose their hold on humanity's progress and future.
The Scattering has one major additional effect: the development of humanity's ability to avoid prescience, which allows a section of humanity to elude the unforeseen power in the universe that will ultimately destroy them. This side effect plays heavily into the unwritten final chapter of the series, later adapted into Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune.
In it, the unknown power uses a form of prescience to detect every possible move humans can make and provide the appropriate counter. That is, if I know what you're going to do before you do it, you can never defeat me. Developing the ability to avoid prescience allows humanity to have a fighting chance against the unknown power.

I recently finished reading God Emperor of Dune. I enjoyed the book overall except for one thing. I found Leto's lectures to his underlings to be generally incomprehensible garbage and rarely applicable to the plot overall except for a handful of times where it was used to show his own hypocrisy. Leto himself states in the book that the person he is lecturing will not understand him. I honestly think Herbert's goal definitely was to make a 3500 year old worm incomprehensible on purpose, and this was not particularly enjoyable. The way that the other characters sometimes act like he has dropped a huge revelation on them is peak smug bullshit if I have ever seen it (Hwi in particular). Do the other books continue on with this trend of verbose, lecturing shit talk? Are Frank's other books worth reading?

I'm withdrawing in to myself. I don't want to hear the opinions of others and I don't want to voice my own. People are fucking stupid, including me. Social media and advertisements; all of this unnecessary noise everywhere. It's information overload, and it's rarely useful or positive information. I'm distancing myself from the internet bit by bit and I feel happier. I read, create artwork, do archery and play guitar. These are all so much more fulfilling than browsing the web. I miss the simpler times when the internet wasn't so entrenched in everyone's lives. I'm not really sure where I'm going with this post, but this is the central topic I've been ruminating on lately and trying to put in to action. The internet provides mental stimulation and I'm trying to replace it with hobbies instead. My level of introversion has shot up recently, not really sure why. I just want to be alone 95% of the time. I see my friends one day a week for games and it's enough. I'm not depressed. Maybe I'm just getting old. Whatever. Diarypost over.

"Knowing is the greatest barrier to learning" - Leto II

That stuck with me, and I try to think about that when reading about something that I think I know already