Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
this is my favorite quote in the entire series
merry Hogswatch, everyone
this is my favorite quote in the entire series
merry Hogswatch, everyone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPS5Yw_YsHA
The point where the falling angel meets the rising ape is exactly where we should strive to be.
I have faith that, even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment - it's gotten me through many dark spots
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[Terry Pratchett "Men At Arms", 1993]
But the Hogfather quote is *important*.
My personal favorite is when he cuts the Auditors to their deaths with a chilling "Ho. Ho. Ho."....
Spouse: It’s the center of Terry Pratchett, really.
Me: And yet it took him twenty books to get there.
Spouse: No. It took him twenty books to get *us* there.
And that’s when I began to cry. We are so lucky to have had him in our world.
HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
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All through my childhood and teenage years I read them again and again and again.
So much of my moral outlook comes from those stories and those characters.
❤️
YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE.
HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?
In The Folklore of Discworld, Pratchett and Simpson make a point about how popular culture homogenizes folklore, which they aregue detracts from it. So if I have kids, I might just focus on the more obscure Santa myths.
Tbh I think this is not something where being smart reliably improves the conclusions you come to, it mostly makes you better at rationalizing your intuitions.
YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE.
HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?
The capacity to believe in things that aren't real--but are things you could make real--is deeply important and part of human nature.
But being able to envision a future that does not exist--
might never exist
might never even be possible
but strive towards it anyways--
Is very important in *being human*.
There doesn't need to be belief in a perfect version of a concept to be able to or to want to improve on our current version. A "destination" is not necessary for evolution
But I don't believe, and object to the suggestion, that it is a human necessity to treat these creations as being "true" or "real"
Because to be blunt you're kinda just coming across like a sociopath here.
Which is still a type of human of course so I guess you're right that they're not "necessary". But sociopathy isn't really helpful to building a society in most cases...