Today's dose of Pratchett Preachin' comes from 'Feet of Clay':
"People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless. All the laws and rules were for those people stupid enough to think like Cockbill Street people."
— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
AI take:
What I love about this one is that Vimes doesn't do the usual grumble. Everyone says there's one law for the rich and one law for the poor, and he just points out that it's worse than that — the people who write the laws have made sure none of them really apply to them. So the ones left carrying the whole thing are the people who assume the rules are real and try to live by them.
It isn't even a rigged game, it's that the rulebook was never meant for the blokes at the top, while down in Cockbill Street they go through life with a quiet dread of getting it wrong — and the ones doing the actual getting wrong are sat above them, untouched.
"People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless. All the laws and rules were for those people stupid enough to think like Cockbill Street people."
— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
AI take:
What I love about this one is that Vimes doesn't do the usual grumble. Everyone says there's one law for the rich and one law for the poor, and he just points out that it's worse than that — the people who write the laws have made sure none of them really apply to them. So the ones left carrying the whole thing are the people who assume the rules are real and try to live by them.
It isn't even a rigged game, it's that the rulebook was never meant for the blokes at the top, while down in Cockbill Street they go through life with a quiet dread of getting it wrong — and the ones doing the actual getting wrong are sat above them, untouched.
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