[Dragaera] Centuries and Centuries of Dragaeran history and no one has invented a steam engine?

[Kris Green via Dragaera]

Isn't the sudden increase in the power of sorcery down to the appearance of
a second sea of chaos?
On 30 May 2016 11:12 pm, "Jon via Dragaera" <dragaera at lists.dragaera.info>
wrote:

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> On 5/30/2016 1:11 PM, Howard Brazee via Dragaera wrote:
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>> On May 30, 2016, at 1:31 PM, corey+scratchfactory.com via Dragaera <
>>> dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:
>>>
>>> Perhaps the sudden and unprecedented flourishing of sorcery during (or
>>> immediately after) the Interregnum gives weight to the idea that the Cycle
>>> somehow inhibits technological innovation?
>>>
>>> Perhaps part of the Cycle's purpose is to hold the world in a sort of
>>> stasis, perhaps as a way of resisting the Jenoine? So that when the Cycle
>>> was broken and the Orb lost, that necessary stasis was disrupted?
>>>
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>> Ooh, I like.    If so, we may discover that in a future book.
>>
>
> It does seem like each House in the Cycle seems to arise as a direct
> reaction to one of the key traits of the House immediately preceding it.
>
> Phoenix - Empire, at the expense of personal Power
> Dragons - Military victory and honor, at the expense of Empire, if
> necessary
> Lyorn - Tradition, at the expense of Military victory
> Tiassa - Innovation and action, at the expense of Tradition
> Hawk - Curiousity and observation (academic intellectualism), at the
> expense of action
> Dzur - Heroism, at the expense of intellectualism
> Issola - Diplomacy, at the expense of heroism
> Tsalmouth - Survival, at the expense of diplomacy
> Vallista - Creativity and artistic expression at the expense of survival
> Jhereg - Influence, at the expense of creativity
> Iorich - Justice, at the expense of influence
>
> &c
>
> It's like a constant self-cleansing system where each turn of the cycle
> helps to wash away whatever significant social innovations might have been
> implemented by the previous house.
>
> Now, some aspects of progressivism in one area of society or other might
> start to develop (for example, whatever Military innovations the Lyorn
> rulers successfully ban may be gradually re-introduced or worked around by
> the next time the Dragons come to power) but then the next Lyorn rule hits
> and sets things back closer to what they were before. Progress is still
> present in such a system, but it is slowed to an almost geological
> timescale.
>
> Majikjon
>
>
> see also:
>
> http://dragaera.wikia.com/wiki/Speculation%3ACycle_Turnings
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