[Dragaera] not really a spoiler, i don't think...

[Howard Brazee]

On 1/19/2010 9:19 AM, Steve Rapaport wrote:
> There are equally simple mundane explanations for the outgoing houses being
> more powerful.
>
> 1.  Institutional inertia.  The "Phoenix Guards" will remain mostly Phoenix
> in a Dragon reign (present case excepted).  Whatever advantages the Phoenix
> courtiers and civil servants and institutions secured for themselves in the
> Phoenix reign will not vanish overnight.
>
> 2.  Political inertia.  Part of a politician's job is to set up leverage for
> himself for future deals, and not all of that leverage will depend on the
> current state of the cycle or who is Emperor at the moment.
>
> 3. Public thinking.  Even if the public is fickle, and willing to forget all
> about Phoenixes and start respecting Dragons, the automatic respect they
> taught their kids for Phoenixes won't go away overnight either.
>    

Good reasons - depending on how the cycle changes.    Revolution tends 
to look at past rulers differently than other succession.

Or a strong desire by everybody to clean up the previous 
administration's mess - which is likely to happen when the Iorich take 
power.    Hmmm, that would be interesting, go through each succession 
and list how each house would respond to the previous.