The Bene Gesserit were hoping for, "The perfect man, with perfect memory who would give perfect predictability."
Perfect Predictability.
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First, Kwisatz Haderach means lots of things. It can be used to describe any being with a 'pure essence.' Paul, Leto II, Malky, Hwi Noree, and the Last Duncan Idaho are all Kwisatz Haderachs under this definition (the one the Tleilaxu give when Facedancer Scytale says, "We once bred our own Kwisatz Haderach." A Kwisatz Haderach, under this definition, then, is a being that will destroy itself (commit suicide, directly or indirectly), before it will allow itself to become the opposite of what it believes, values, and holds dear.
Secondly, a Kwisatz Haderach can mean a Male Reverend Mother, a male with access to other memory in the way a Bene Gesserit can, but with access to the male side ( and argueably not the female side, depending on how you want to interperet things.) This is half of what the BG were searching for. Depending on whether you want to interperet the 'Male Reverend Mother' label as a Male with access to Male Other Memory, or a Male with Access to Female Other Memory, or a Male with Access to Both, under two of those three definitions, they failed. Before Children of Dune, one could assume that ONLY a Male Reverend Mother/Kwisatz Haderach could access Male other Memory, and this was due to the fact that only men get the Y chromosome, which is passed on 'through the male line.' If this is true, due to the way genetics work, and following with the Male Only Other Memory Theory, a Kwisatz Haderach would have drastically less other memory than a reverend mother -- Just the Male side, passed along the Male Line. A Female Reverend Mother has the entire other memory of every female ancestor on her mother's side.
Thirdly, a Kwisatz Haderach can mean someone who can see the future, or, more appropriately, all possibile futures, and, since seeing the future causes the seer to choose from all possible futures one in particular, and then cause that one to come into being, since apparently, once you realise the quantum mechanical function of the mind ( that you really don't have free will,) you lose your free will, and can only proceed along a single path. This is what the BG were looking for.
Had their Kwisatz Haderach not arrived early, they would have been able to careful, meticulous, school and raise and condition him, so that his ideals would have been BG ideals -- like Miles Teg (who at one point notes to himself that he likes the Sisterhood because they share his Morals/Ideals -- the very morals/ideals that the Sisterhood itself instilled in him. For what Paul would have been like as the Sisterhood's ideal KH, just think about what Teg did after the T-Probe, and how he carried out Taraza's plan: He was unable to change the course of his actions, because he was Taraza's Bashar, and had to follow Taraza's orders.)
So if Paul had been brought up by the BG, he would have created the world the BG wanted, lived a hundred/plus years, then died out, leaving the BG with their 'Perfect World,' and without the meddling of a Seer. That was the perfect predictablity.
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