I re-read Guards! Guards! last night and came across this line that so perfectly captures our current zeitgeist, or, rather, I think anyone can read this during any era and can't help but feel a strong connection to it. Pratchett is a genius.
Down there – he said – are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.
– Lord Vetinari, Guards! Guards!
The hairs on the back of my neck raised. Even if you're "on the other side", you can just feel it. I can't help but make the connections to what our country is going through (I'm from the US).
No matter "what side" you're on, the world would be a much better place if everyone read.
by DROP_DAT_DURKA_DURK
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Never read the series but that is a great quote, thanks for sharing.
And I agree with you ❤️
I love Terry Pratchett and the Night Watch series. His best work in my view.
Colour of Magic can’t even light a candle. It was just a warn up. Fight me 🤣
A lot of Sir Terry’s books are almost prescient about the situations in which we find ourselves right now.
Unfortunately, we don’t seem to have a Commander Vimes with his unshakeable sense of right or wrong.