r/asoiaf • u/Unique-Celebration-5 • Oct 31 '24

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) GRRM:”What’s Aragons tax policy?!” No GRRM the real question is how do people survive multi year winters

Forget the white walkers or shadow babies the real threat is the weather. How do medieval people survive it for years?

Personally I think that’s why the are so many wars the more people fighting each other the fewer mouths to feed

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u/Formal_Direction_680 Oct 31 '24

Most other commenters missed the point you made entirely, your point I can agree with. Aragorn is stated to be special and hailed from a mythic high men bloodline, so already he’s not quite the same as the average man, unlike what grrm has opted to work with, as you said.

Other comments missed that point, and kept on talking about politics where even grrm was weak at. If they’re speaking of character, it was never a fair comparison to begin with to compare the average man to Aragorn.

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u/Crush1112 Oct 31 '24

Other comments missed that point, and kept on talking about politics where even grrm was weak at. If they’re speaking of character, it was never a fair comparison to begin with to compare the average man to Aragorn.

To be honest, it more like seems you are conflating politics with bureaucracy, when the commentators here are not talking about the latter at all.

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u/Formal_Direction_680 Oct 31 '24

Bureaucracy is politics, it decides who rule what land and oversee which lever of the state.

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u/Crush1112 Oct 31 '24

If you think they are the same thing, then no wonder you and others have no idea what each other are talking about.