ADAM OLSEN: Just as the Heads of the Houses who have fought alongside House Stark for eternity, are splitting hairs about Jon's decision to give up his Crown, we are also bickering about the sides of our House
This tweet from Torrance Coste, campaigner for the Wilderness Committee, caught my attention: Centrism can’t beat the right anymore. We learned that down south in 2016, and in # Alberta tonight. Do we have to get this wrong again in the fall? Neoliberalism is done — we need a bold left alternative, or we’ll get right-wing populism Jon Snow ~~ Game of Thrones It was a response to the Alberta election but it reminded me of another significant event from just a few days earlier, the first episode of the final season of Game of Thrones. How are this tweet, the Alberta election and the hit show connected? Good question! As I see it, the epic battle that has been brewing in the show for the past seven seasons is a metaphor of the challenge we face with global warming. The show is a rather brutal, gory study in power dynamics. As a massive, seemingly invincible army of the dead is marching south, the Lords, Ladies, Queens and Kings of the seven kingdoms are fighting ...