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If you didn’t read part one, that’s fine — so long as you keep the following in mind:
I believe that what we see in [Game of Thrones] (…) is a sort of quasi “first principle” on which much else is made to rest.
Broadly, this is the movement — construed as progress — from the sacred to the secular, from religion to reason, from other-worldly to this-worldly concerns.
Let’s take a look at G.O.T.’s exact trajectory vis-a-vis religion, history, and the secular.
First, we have the Long Night. (more…)
