Varys: Chaos? A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.
Petyr Bealish: Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder.
Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb and they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the Gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real, the climb is all there is.
Where there is no upheaval there is no opportunity. Chaos creates all types of opportunities for young insurgents to come and disrupt the slow, fat incumbents. If you come from nothing it’s difficult to get anywhere where order exists. You have to drag the game into your court. Make their strengths become their weaknesses.
I was discussing with Bastian earlier today about the culture of Germans. They are obsessed with being super efficient and / or organised with whatever they do. I postulated whether the German people were a product of their culture or did their great institutions reward and instil the need for efficiency in the wid...