SpiritualYogiNerd

In WoR chapter 67 Dalinar has a conversation with Wit and asks him 

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am I a Tyrant?

Wit says that he is, but then adds:

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Do not Sorrow, It is an era for Tyrants. I doubt this place is ready for anything more, and a benevolent tyrant is preferable to the disaster of weak rule. Perhaps in another place and time, I'd have denounced you with spit and bile. Here, today, I praise you as what this world needs.

I wonder what Sanderson believes...

This statement got me contemplating, especially now, since in less than three weeks here in Israel we are going to have elections 6 months after the previous ones. This is the result of the parties not succeeding to form a coalition and government. The way it looks, things are not going to go much better after the coming elections...  

Are we in an era where leadership is gained by power? Half of the world is still ruled by dictators. In the other half where we have democracy, is it power or benevolence that leads?

In OB we learn that the Radiants abandoned their oaths in the recreance when they learned that the use of surgebinding led to the destruction of their original planet Ashyn. I was kind of wondering what kind of use of surgebinding could wreak such devastation as to make a planet uninhabitable? I mean it would need to be something like a full fledged nuclear war. The only candidate seems to be the surge of division which we haven't seen used yet in the books. Love to hear your ideas on this.

Hi everyone,

I'm so happy to have found this place! I love fantasy and have read Brandon's Mistborn series and the Stormlight Archive books.

I like to find interesting philosophical and moral questions that appear in the stories and discuss how they apply to our own time and age.

Love and light to all