Nah. He just insulted all the non-knights serving us. But he could have said so much worse.
Could we have that as an infopost? That'd be useful for us too.
The problem here is the whole Kingmaker situation was talked about by various nobles and Maesters and history does reflect these were problems of the people rather than the Order, but that was a political sop to appease both the Faith and various nobles who wanted one more inroad into the King's inner-circle.
What I got from him is that he thinks we are not keeping our knights close enough and instead traffic with... commoners... far too much at that...
He's Westerosi... so chances are yes, he is that stupid.
But no one actually believes it consistently managed to perform those duties stated in the Oath, so much as succeeded in acting as one more lever to check the Targs' power. That's the unspoken part. And that's why it remained unchanged for three centuries. I refuse to believe practically any institution, let alone the Kingsguard after the Dance, wasn't brought up as in need of updates. But post-Dance the Targs were lacking in more than soft power.
DP explicitly noted the following in his author's note:
That said this also means it's less Selmy individually that's a problem and more the Westerosi in general who have this mindset. They're not big fans of us knocking down established institutions and honoring worthy commoners alongside nobility.
Well time for them to suck Viserys's dragon dick! Because they don't get a say in what institutions stay and what go...
Yep. They get zero say. The landed nobility are done as a power, it's mostly just a matter of time before they keel over and die.
