It doesn't have be to seeds of a revolution, it can just be how that person be.
Sure, but the time periods match well. That Cretan Cynic could have communicated his ideas to what, a few dozen people a day? Maximum? If he dedicated his entire life to it? And eventually he'd have already told everyone in his immediate area who cared to know, so his rates would drop even further.
But in an era like this with high literacy? Ideas can move
fast. And like I said, I don't think she came up with it. She was
way too willing to say it, far too willing to respond with force when the ideas were challenged.
If she'd come up with it by herself, there would have been long periods where she's still developing the ideas, and bouncing them off of people around her. Which would have been noticed by whoever runs the maids at the palace, and if she wasn't made to shut up, she never would have been serving the Fire Lord directly. If she was made to shut up such that serving the Fire Lord would be possible, she wouldn't have had enough people to bounce the ideas off of in order to develop them to where they
are.
Frankly, the Fire Palace is the
worst place for ideas like this to be birthed, and even if they were birthed there they wouldn't have been able to grow to what we see here. No, these seeds came to fruition elsewhere, and have since spread so far that a servant in the
Imperial Palace is spouting them to the
heir to the throne. If you're a member of a hereditary, Divine Right to Rule Monarchy, this is
bad.
Complex ideas like this can take a long time to arise, and an even longer time to take root, but once they're out there its too late to stop them. You can't kill an idea, and trying will only make it spread
faster. Its only a matter of time before something boils over. It
could be decades, but the longer this punishing war goes on while the Royals play petty politics and, ahem,
eat cake, the less time there is.
