Episode 26: “Dance Party: Vol. VI; Dance Dance Revolution”
In this twenty-sixth episode of Learned Hands, the Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association, Maester Merry, Clint from Laws of Ice and Fire ask: Did the people of King’s Landing have the right to revolution? If so, why?
Our analysis this week includes:
- The Smallfolk Strike Back! We cover what happened to get folks to the point where they’re ready to storm the basti… erm, dragonpit.
- The Return of Clint’s Lockean Right to Revolution.
- Merry responds with some (not necessarily) Marxism.
- No one trusts a goddamn word Archmaester Gyldayn says.
- Your Hands cover the overlapping terms of riot, revolution, uprising, rebellion, and everything in between.
- General agreement that Cock Taxes are bad.
- We cover what this part of the Dance has in common with the Bread Riots, Stonewall, Watts, Warsaw, Minneapolis, Compton’s Cafeteria, and even the February Revolution.
- Finally, we deliver a final verdict on whether and why the people of King’s Landing had the Right to Revolution.
Supplemental reading:
- Taking the Enlightenment Seriously Requires a Discussion of Race
- MLK’s Grosse Pointe speech
- Should countries have the right to rebel?
- Was Stonewall a riot, an uprising, or a rebellion?
- Steven Attewell on the Targaryen Dracocracy
Bumpers by Reg Levy. Intro & Outro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY.
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