And Not Much Has Changed With Regard To The Foreign Policies - Tumblr Posts

orneltec

1 year ago

An image of a page from Terry Pratchett's book A Slip of the Keyboard. The text on the page says:
"People have already asked me if I had the current international situation in mind when I wrote the book. The answer is no. I wouldn’t insult even rats by turning them into handy metaphors. It’s just unfortunate that the current international situation is pretty much the same old dull, stupid international situation, in a world obsessed by the monsters it has made up, dragons that are hard to kill. We look around and see foreign policies that are little more than the taking of revenge for the revenge that was taken in revenge for the revenge last time. It’s a path that leads only downwards, and still the world flocks along it. It makes you want to spit. The dinosaurs were thick as concrete, but they survived for 150 million years and it took a damn great asteroid to knock them out. I find myself wondering now if intelligence comes with its own built-in asteroid."

- Terry Pratchett, 2001 Carnegie Medal Award Speech (from A Slip of the Keyboard)

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