Yes exactly.

Here’s another quote from Small Gods and it’s one that lives rent free in my head about life in an authoritarian state:

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Now, someone adapting this scene might do a sweeping footage over a corn field that zooms in on a faceless farmer trying to pull out a stubborn weed while a voiceover says the line. It’s possible that it might work, but there’s a good chance it won’t work as well as it does in my head when I read it. But I’m thinking it’s more likely that scenes like these are gonna be cut, and that’s an abomination unto Nuggan