In you analysis, you emphasise how important was for the Stark to follow a coherent strategy through centuries to unite the North. My question is, how do you ensure a strategic continuity from generation to generation? A key problem is that you can’t conceptualise a rational plan (not that it would be effective) without literacy. Lady Dustin suggests that the Maesters are the ones making strategy and planning. In the past, did myth and epos substitute for calculation?

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I would imagine great care has to be taken with education of the next generation, so that the ideas behind the strategy are passed down from king to crown prince without fail. 

However,, I would disagree that you “can’t conceptualize a rational plan…without literacy.” Literacy is incredibly useful in recording and transmitting plans, but it’s not necessary to come up with them. There’s plenty of cultures which emphasized oral history and memorization, etc. 

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