It’s emphatically not enough. Jonathan Swift may have been wise enough to figure out certain evolutionary principles; he may have been good; he was also wrong on the facts, because science is fscking hard.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t be hard. I’m saying that being able to make the hard decisions is part of being a “wise ruler”. I admit I never finished the Lord of the Rings, so I don’t know what Tolkien actually said, but from what Martin quoted, Tolkien never said it would be easy. If anything, specifying that Aragorn was wise was suggesting that it was hard.
It’s emphatically not enough. Jonathan Swift may have been wise enough to figure out certain evolutionary principles; he may have been good; he was also wrong on the facts, because science is fscking hard.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t be hard. I’m saying that being able to make the hard decisions is part of being a “wise ruler”. I admit I never finished the Lord of the Rings, so I don’t know what Tolkien actually said, but from what Martin quoted, Tolkien never said it would be easy. If anything, specifying that Aragorn was wise was suggesting that it was hard.