Timeline for Who dreamt of breaking the wheel before Daenerys Targaryen
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| Jun 8, 2015 at 15:15 | comment | added | TylerH | @Cherubel SPOILER: We see exactly that in SE5E09, actually. | |
| Jun 8, 2015 at 12:16 | comment | added | Luaan | @Cherubel Well, that really smells more of meritocracy, bureaucracy, geniocracy, gerontocracy, oligarchy or many others, rather than democracy. Do not underestimate how silly democracy sounds to someone who's never experienced it (and many who have :D). The defining feature of democracy is exactly that people are not selected based on how "learned" or "smart" or "worthy" they are - they're selected based on the amount of votes they got from the voters (not even the whole populace - kids, women, slaves and many more were commonly excluded; even today, kids, prisoners and such are). | |
| Jun 8, 2015 at 11:30 | comment | added | Cherubel | @Luaan Well not so much is shown of the backstory on the show. In the books she tries to leave a governing council of learned people in charge. after her army leaves there is a "revolt" a bloodbath ensues and a "dictator" takes over. Similar thing happens in the second city she conqueres. As soon as she leaves the people in charge take over and bring back slavery. So in the books she is learning at a slow pace, but stil learning. | |
| Jun 8, 2015 at 11:02 | comment | added | Luaan | Why democracy, out of all things? Abolishing hierarchical leadership, sure. Getting rid of the other houses, sure. Maintaining firm control while leaving local autonomy intact, sure. But why democracy? Is there any indication she'd pick that course out of all the dozens available? | |
| Jun 8, 2015 at 10:44 | comment | added | Cherubel | There are none. She means to take power by might as her ancestors did. We are yet to see her taming/riding the dragons in the tv show. once she acomplishes this she can almost singlehanded take over. | |
| Jun 8, 2015 at 10:30 | history | answered | Thorst | CC BY-SA 3.0 |