House of the Dragon shows why the powerful become monsters…
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House of the Dragon shows why the powerful become monsters -- they stop answering to the living.
There are many philosophers you might expect to turn up in Westeros -- Nietzsche, of course, Machiavelli, perhaps even Aristotle. But what about Simone Weil? Her essay on the Iliad, written in the shadow of the Second World War, argues that force turns people into things -- and that it does this to those who wield it just as surely as to those it falls upon. Perhaps that explains why, in the struggle for the throne, even the noblest characters become monsters: their causes stop answering to the living.
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There are many philosophers you might expect to turn up in Westeros -- Nietzsche, of course, Machiavelli, perhaps even Aristotle. But what about Simone Weil? Her essay on the Iliad, written in the shadow of the Second World War, argues that force turns people into things -- and that it does this to those who wield it just as surely as to those it falls upon. Perhaps that explains why, in the struggle for the throne, even the noblest characters become monsters: their causes stop answering to the living.
#science
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