“It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy.
The ugly facets of nationalism in the common people also make it possible. Of racism, of a sense of superiority – “make Ankh-Morpork great again” – and Ankh-Morporkĭoes not go to war only because The Powers the Be decide so: the insidious presence Orange Menace and his cohorts yes but also everybody else who supports them. Greed and imperialism still going strong all over the world and fuelling the Well, ever), current events happening right now show racism, Even though it is an obvious correlation with England (in 1997, now and Little – racism, greed and imperialism often at the core of something like Make a war even possible are expertly shown, unveiled to the reader little by It does not mean it is also not thought-provoking and true. Reminding us always that simplicity does not ever equal stupidity, JingoĪlso reminds us that just because something can be seem as comical and farcical, In Ankh-Morpork due to his eagerness, his earnestness and simplicity ofĬharacter. Made apparent the ways he has affected the lives of pretty much every citizen Take constable Carrot for example: in Jingo, it is again
Reminded of the mixture of charm and disarming intelligence this series – and theseĬharacters – have. I am slowly reading to prepare for the upcoming BBC series) and I was once more Jingo is the fourth in the Watch series (which His own usual pragmatic, often Machiavellian self. Vimes being the usual Vimes being led by his own instincts and Vetinari being Two countries but tragedy is averted and war avoided by the parallel efforts ofĬommandant Vimes of the City Watch and Lord Vetinari. World, the two sides are also fighting for little piece of land in between the Us all in danger in the same way the foolish, warmongering characters in the I read it literally one day before the Orange Menace put Khali (the capital of Klatch), after the attempted assassination of an officialĭignitary of the latter. Period of peace that leads to a (short-lived) war between Ankh-Morpork and Al
Pratchett, is a novel about a ridiculous escalating of hostilities after a long Of 2020 proved to be a scarily prescient novel from 1997. Stand alone or series: Fourth in the Watch series, Twenty-First Discworld And in such pressing circumstances, you really shouldn’t let small details like the absence of an army or indeed the money to finance one get in the way of a righteous fight with all the attendant benefits of out-and-out nationalism… It is after all every citizen’s right to bear arms to defend what they consider to be their own. Never more so if it is over a ‘strategic’ piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere. Throughout history, there’s always been a perfectly good reason to start a war.
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