Brian, I think you’re exactly right about the tower’s stagnation, that’s what I was trying to describe too. They have been doing what they do because “that’s just the way it’s done” for so long they (as a group) have lost the ability to adapt. They can’t change with the times when the situation...
It does bother me.
The White Tower in general (the book not us!) has a real problem with not looking at things head on, they pretend they can’t see anything they don’t like. And they have a tradition or a hierarchy for everything and focus on it so rigidly that they sometimes seem to miss what...