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I dunno if y’all are following the official Terry Pratchett page on facebook or not but ever since the US election results came out they’ve been posting text images like these:
[Quote: “Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”]
and honestly the thought of Terry Pratchett throwing shade from beyond the grave is all that’s keep me going some days.
I saw one comment from saying something along the lines “well you shouldn’t post this, you don’t know how he’d feel about it”
No. If you read ANY of his books it’s clear how he’d feel about this nonsense.
I saw those comments and laughed my ass of because Terry was, and remains, a bastion of righteous rage and hope in a world weakened by fear and hatred. He told us plainly, Suffer Not Injustice—to take light into dark places and to care for those in need, not because it is kind or good but because it is right.
He’d be going absolutely fucking SPARE if he were alive to see the world as it is today. And
I don’t just mean over the US elections, I mean Brexit, I mean
Aleppo—the whole god damn world—he’d be going utterly Stoneface-I can’t be having with this-Librarian Poo.
And he’d damn well do something about it too.
NGL there’s been a 3rd thought in the back of my head when I’m wondering if I’m doing enough and if anything I do matters that whispers with wide-eyed horror–
“–but Terry Pratchett would go SPARE.”
The only upside to 2016 is that Pterry may in fact resurrect out of pure, unbridled rage.
“And ANOTHER thing…”
lately I am constantly reminded of the conversation between Granny Weatherwax and Mightily Oats in Carpe Jugulum:
“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”
“Nope.”
“Pardon?”
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that–”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes–”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”