Petyr Baelish: the locomotive of history!

[Chaircat Meow]

Petyr Baelish is a force for good in westeros.

His scheming has facilitated and prolonged a continent wide war and, as we know, wars have the potential to render redundant old and oppressive social structures and usher in new ones.

He is also associated with the mercantile classes, through his position as master of coin and his estrangement from the martial norms of the current noble class . Everyone knows that in RL merchants and money lenders helped europe transition to a commercial, market based economy and laid the foundation for the wealth much of the world enjoys today.

His excessive borrowing and investing while Robert's master of coin also anticipated crucial Keynesian insights. These were only discerned in RL in the twentieth century but LF is represented as understanding these notions in GrrM's feux medieval world.

For all we know LF also plans to patronize poets, artists and architects, as well as fund expeditions to recover philosophical works lost in the doom of Valyria and encourage philology as regards the texts sacred to the worship of the seven.

Praise the Great One.

[Éadaoin]

You troll.

[locke and key]

Petyr Baelish is a force for good in westeros.

His scheming has facilitated and prolonged a continent wide war and, as we know, wars have the potential to render redundant old and oppressive social structures and usher in new ones.

He is also associated with the mercantile classes, through his position as master of coin and his estrangement from the martial norms of the current noble class . Everyone knows that in RL merchants and money lenders helped europe transition to a commercial, market based economy and laid the foundation for the wealth much of the world enjoys today.

His excessive borrowing and investing while Robert's master of coin also anticipated crucial Keynesian insights. These were only discerned in RL in the twentieth century but LF is represented as understanding these notions in GrrM's feux medieval world.

For all we know LF also plans to patronize poets, artists and architects, as well as fund expeditions to recover philosophical works lost in the doom of Valyria and encourage philology as regards the texts sacred to the worship of the seven.

Praise the Great One.

Joke or no :dunno:

[Stannis Eats No Peaches]

The wars caused by Littlefinger eventually lead to a better society? I'm sold, praise Him indeed.

[rejndjer]

if im not wrong most of the wealth today is in the hands of few, also u see how bankers made a nice world for us 5 years ago.

aside from that, even if they were such good doers, i really don't see LF as such, since he was actually destroying kingdom's economy to promote his interests. that being said he's still one of my favorite characters :)

[Lord Reaver]

Joke or no :dunno:

Who cares ? It's hilarious !

[butterbumps!]

For all we know LF also plans to patronize poets, artists and architects, as well as fund expeditions to recover philosophical works lost in the doom of Valyria and encourage philology as regards the texts sacred to the worship of the seven.

Yea, it adds up. He has been asking Cersei for those hunting tapestries, which can only mean he's a secret Peggy Guggenheim.

[Winterfellian]

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The sheer force and coherence of your arguments is impossible to refute :P

[Lord Illidan Stormrage]

Petyr Baelish is a force for good in westeros.

His scheming has facilitated and prolonged a continent wide war and, as we know, wars have the potential to render redundant old and oppressive social structures and usher in new ones.

He is also associated with the mercantile classes, through his position as master of coin and his estrangement from the martial norms of the current noble class . Everyone knows that in RL merchants and money lenders helped europe transition to a commercial, market based economy and laid the foundation for the wealth much of the world enjoys today.

His excessive borrowing and investing while Robert's master of coin also anticipated crucial Keynesian insights. These were only discerned in RL in the twentieth century but LF is represented as understanding these notions in GrrM's feux medieval world.

For all we know LF also plans to patronize poets, artists and architects, as well as fund expeditions to recover philosophical works lost in the doom of Valyria and encourage philology as regards the texts sacred to the worship of the seven.

Praise the Great One.

This gives it up as a joke.

[King of Winters]

This gives it up as a joke.

It's still a well thought out and well written topic. :P

[Lady Lea]

This gives it up as a joke.

I think that was pretty clear from the first sentence.

[Lord Illidan Stormrage]

It's still a well thought out and well written topic.

Yeah i have the bad taste in my mouth that this is meant to satirize the opinions i voiced in other tread as Petyr being an engine of change.

[E-Ro]

this thread has my endorsement.

[Éadaoin]

this thread has my endorsement.

You are really taking the biscuit here, E-Ro.

[Jasta11]

This gives it up as a joke.

Yeah, but the rest is exactly what some (includng you) have been claiming, which is nonsense to me. Littlefinger is nothing, absolutely nothing like the Medicis. He led the kindgom to a financial chasm, so much that the Iron Bank has given them up in favor of a guy who hasn't got a penny to his name (Stannis). he doesn't run no banks, he merely borrowed an insane amount of money because the king was stupid enough to look the other way. He's a noble, a lower sort of noble but a noble still, with many contacts granted by his birthright, so he's no self-made man. His apparent plan to change Westeros for the better is to plunge it in a continent-wide war solely for personnal gain, and right as the dreaded winter is approaching nonetheless.

Littlefinger is not out to change the system. He's out for Littlefinger, and his method is gaming the system. he has expressed absolutely no interest in changing anything. Unless you mean to tell me the Lord of Harrenhal and Lord Protector of the Vale is some kind of folk hero willing the overthrow the old order. So can we get that farce out of the way, please?

[Lord Lymond Lychester]

aside from that, even if they were such good doers, i really don't see LF as such, since he was actually destroying kingdom's economy to promote his interests. that being said he's still one of my favorite characters :)

Agreed, he's done some pretty speculative things to get where he is, and I really don't see it stopping here.

That's what makes him a total boss at the game of thrones, but that being said, it doesn't mean he won't do a great deal of good when he gets to whatever position he is planning to, even though he may have some creepy thing for Sansa,

He has a brain and is trying to change westeros for the better, he may be conniving while doing it, but he sure as hell gets shit done

you can't honestly say that lysa was good for anyone in westeros

[E-Ro]

You are really taking the biscuit here, E-Ro.

Oh, im sorry my sweet eadie, but you are just going to have to accept it. I am asserting my dominance.

[Theda Baratheon]

I bet reading a current LF POV would be alarmingly like reading Lolita.

[King Aerys the Just]

*Communist propaganda*

Cease spreading your lies and your desinformation! All Littlefinger does, he does for the good of Westeros!

/Osney Kettleblack.

[Éadaoin]

Oh, im sorry my sweet eadie, but you are just going to have to accept it. I am asserting my dominance.

It's adorable when you fight against your own nature.

Be more like Littlefinger. Embrace it.