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To elaborate; Theors are essentially medieval monks, storing scientific knowledge in 'safe' low-tech means of writing and oral history. The society of which they're a part, at one point, prior to the Reconstitution, worked with sophisticated technology, but largely renounced it because it led to...

The interstellar rather than planetary nature of civilization in Dune mattered little, so long as available territory was still kept limited by the accessibility of Melange. If it was possible to build starships without needing a supply of Melange, only available from Arrakis for the Navigators...

Capitalism. There's nothing ideological about wanting to replace human labor with machines, assuming the machines can do it cheaper. Ideological reasons would be something like 'loyalty purges of the human military and law enforcement in favor of Commissar ED-209, who lacks the free will and...

Even if you're willing to accept the consequences of deliberately regressing your technology, a prisoner's dilemma scenario comes into effect where any society, group or even individual who didn't is now more powerful than you. The only way that the "give up technology and lifestyle to save the...