Vetinari is an astute, even genius politician, but *never* visibly “leads”. He operates by maintaining a balance of power among rival guilds, nobility, neighboring states, unwashed masses, criminals, wizards, etc. He can operate from lowest level of street detail to loftiest.
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A pragmatist who resists both progressive and reactionary utopianism but not as a direct ideological adversary to utopian instincts. But by simply accepting the existence of utopians of all sorts and positioning oneself as a foil to all of them, arranging them in a balance.
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That’s how you solve for muddling through and slouching towards utopia in a complex world. That’s how you keep things boring and protect normalcy during the weirdest of weird times (which is all the time in Discworld).
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You say "all" but that does seem to elide the vast majority of people who toil to death as peasants, doesn't it?
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