No, humanity has the Endarkment coming to it…īut there is hope.
I mean, Esther Little had to ask pretty please for asylum from Holly before she bunkered down in her brain. You'd have to get into the heads of a lot of world leaders, change entire cultural perceptions of consumption and the environment for them to have an impact. They came together with the purpose of getting rid of this Anchorite sect.Īnd could they save humanity if they wanted to anyway? Their powers are impressive but not unlimited and only a few of them (Esther, Xi Lo) were really, really powerful. But I personally didn't really feel like it was the Horologists' overwhelming mandate to save humanity anyway. I can see the frustration about the battle being frivolous in light of the Endarkment played out in the last chapter (the contrast between the two chapters was startling certainly). Sure the battle was exciting (if not a little silly) and the supernatural drama was captivating, but its almost like he was saying that even the Horologists, who should have more perspective than a normal temporal person got so caught up in their own compelling drama with the Anchorites that they too ignored what was happening to the world around them. This felt so incongruous to me that I can't help but wonder if it was intentional on Mitchell's part. Not to mention that for most of their lives, of all people, the Horologists have the most to lose by allowing human civilization to collapse and the environment to be destroyed. I get that the Anchorites are evil and deserve to be stopped, but in the grand scheme of things they are only killing 4 people a year (compared to the untold millions/billions? that die in the Endarkenment and the miserable lives of those "lucky" enough to survive). Despite the fact that it should be clear to them that humanity is destroying itself and on a path to the unraveling of society we see in the "Sheep's Head" chapter, the Horologists seem to do absolutely nothing to prevent that future from happening, instead focusing all of their vast resources on eliminating the Anchorites. As mentioned in the title, don't read this post if you haven't finished the bookĭid anyone feel like the Horologists battle with the Anchorites was kind of self-centered and silly in light of the apocalyptic ending? I mean we are talking about people who have the collected wisdom/memories of numerous lives, "psychoesoteric" powers, access to a "Script" that gives them some idea of what the future holds, and presumably near unlimited funds.
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