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Jessica Kant

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It's terrifying that the only reason I have moral clarity as a reader is that Pratchett set the story up to be bombastically obvious about that which it was critiquing. It was written during the first Gulf War, where missile-mounted cameras showed the point of impact like a videogame.

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While footage like this was shown during the US invasion of Grenada, it was still from far away and not materially that much different from Vietnam footage. In the mid-90's, they knew they had to really sell this one. And holy shit, did they ever.

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