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This would pair well with the John Lewis quote "Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble"

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This reminds me of how Kim Stanley Robinson refers to himself as an 'angry optimist.'

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just wait until you figure out happiness shouldn’t be your primary goal ;)

@herhandsmyhands Even as early as Jingo or The Amazing Maurice, we can see his anger overtake his sense of absurdist glee in the world imo. The signs of alzheimers creeping in, to be honest - every alzheimers’ case I’ve ever known has had the anger manifest first, before the more classically recognisable symptoms such as memory loss.

Go back and read something like Wyrd Sisters and the tone is totally different. The joie d’vivre is profound. Or hell, even Guards! Guards! has Vimes’ anger manifest as a vehicle for a kind of comedy that treads the line between relatability and impotence - that one’s particularly painful since Vimes becomes such a vehicle for Pratchett’s anger later on.

The Light Fantastic literally deals with a cult of mindless zealots, and rather than the fist-waving fury we might see in later Discworld, we get instead a sad commentary from Death: “The death of the warrior or the old man or the little child, this I understand, and I take away the pain and end the suffering. I do not understand this death-of-the-mind.”

Cast your mind back to Mort, when the old witch of the forest happily accepts her death, and fades into the forest itself rather than being taken by the psychopomp, because it’s where she wanted to go.

In my view, the anger is not what should be taken from Pratchett’s work. It’s the joy.

@herhandsmyhands That's kinda my thing. I grew up homeless, drug addicted, and steeped in gang violence. I have seen some of the ugliest shit the world has to offer. I can be a cold jaded bastard most days, but my only hope is to help one person feel not-alone everyday.

And who doesn't love Terry Pratchett.

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Aka righteous anger. I has a lengthy pedigree.

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Terry Pratchett is the fantasy author people should be reading.

@herhandsmyhands pterry understood people, *deeply*. And he was still optimistic about us. That has given me more hope in some very dark moments than I can articulate.

This empathy, and his ability to *write* it, was his genius.

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Quite similar to Waymond's credo in Everything Everywhere All at Once:

"You tell me that it's a cruel world, and that we're all just running around in circles. I know that. I've been on this earth just as many days as you. When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naïve. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I've survived through everything. I know you see yourself as a fighter. Well, I see myself as one too. This is how I fight."

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"Fire bad!"

Unless its contained in a hearth and is used to forge tools.

Dont despair, bank your anger for justice.

@herhandsmyhands I remember that this was quite strongly pointed out in a BBC movie that was aired after his death ("Back in Black"? I'm no longer sure if that's the one).

I love this trait of character in people.

Albert Camus was also like that. For Camus, the answer to the absurdity of life is the revolt, defined as both an intense "no" to *any* injustice and cruelty and an intense "yes" to life.

Everybody knows The Stranger but they ought to read the The Rebel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_%28book%29