Why are fantasy stories set in a pre-capitalist era popular?
Oathkeeper, Brienne and Catelyn, Brienne and Jaime, Pod and Tyrion, Selmy wants to serve a good ruler.
Kingslayer, house guest rules and Freys-Boltons are cursed/ will end up in the Seven Hells for the Red Wedding.
The family is communism/socialism/postcapitalism in embryo. Too each according to their needs from each according to their ability.
appeal of Game of Thrones and fantasy is that it's pre-capitalist. Not everything is reduced to exchange value.
aware of the problematics of a conservative desire for order and father knows best, unquestioning submission to authority. Ross Douthat in his review of K21.
As an honorable man, Ned Stark had a code of accountability. He who passed the sentence should swing the sword. It's why he didn't have an executioner/headsman.
Of course in Westeros and Essos, most people are peasants and dirt poor. Capitalism raised many people out of poverty over the years.
King Robert Baratheon to Cersei on the prospect of the Dothraki invading: "The kingdom is nothing but money-grubbing and backstabbing."
King Robert Baratheon to Cersei on the prospect of the Dothraki invading: "The kingdom is nothing but money-grubbing and backstabbing."
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