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1/ As the fate of Westeros now lies in the hands of a fisiparous coalition that has never before worked together, we should ask to what extent an Erasmus-like student mobility scheme would have made this battle somewhat easier.
2/ It's not just that Westeros' young people would have been more exposed to each other's cultures and hence less likely to have engaged in pointless civil wars; when facing an Army of the Dead, the ability to work in multicultural teams could really come in handy.
3/ I mean think about it: if the Northerners had established some kind of Winterfell branch campus in Hardhome, the whole evacuation sequence would have gone *way* more smoothly. Trust, understanding, etc.
4/ Also, cuts to social sciences in humanities in the austerity budgets following the exhaustion of the Castelly Rock gold mines really hit hard. There must have been a half-dozen ethnographic studies of white walkers cancelled which *really* would have come in handy tonight.
5/ Anyways, what worries me most is that even if they defeat the dead, the Seven Kingdoms will be so exhausted by conflict that their regulatory & QA systems won't be able to deal with an oinslaught from the powerful for-profit higher education industry in Braavos.
6/ Important question: would the Citadel have been more attuned to the imminent slaugher of millions, and the prospect of endless night/the extinction of mankind, if its funding had been performance-based?
7/ Hypothesis: the Sparrows were an organic reaction to the proliferation of student debt in King's Landing.
