What is the deal with dragons?

I've been enjoying the first half dozen episodes of the latest George R. R. Martin series, House of the Dragon, since John recommended watching it on HBO.  I have to preface these remarks by saying that I tried watching a couple of episodes of its predecessor/sequel Game of Thrones, but despite being impressed by some of the visual effects, the soap opera nature of its character presentation put me off.  So far, this has not happened with House of the Dragon, at least, not enough to make me hit the off button.  I can stretch my sense of verisimilitude enough to tolerate a certain number of anachronisms and anomalies that have turned up as I wait for resolution of some issues.  It is interesting for me to observe that the wide audience of this drama probably has little actual understanding of what life was like in the Dark or Middle Ages, even for the privileged noble classes.  However, this is perhaps not that surprising, since people in the Renaissance went to plays that presented Julius Caesar or Pericles prancing about in doublets and tights.  

I was struck by the role the dragons play in the pseudo-historical process.  They are the instruments of ultimate power, the weapons of mass destruction that enable clans to achieve hegemony in greater Westeros.  As such, they are rather like flying, squawking atom bombs.  Inferior races, like the Crabfeeder's Triarchy followers (Terrorists? Axis of Evil?) do not have access to dragons for unspecified reasons.  Consequently, they can only fight a sort of guerrilla war against the victorious "noble" houses.  Fortunately for the plot, they do not seem to be able to enrich uranium or import technology to give them an equivalent force de frappe, and so are doomed to eventual defeat and devastation.  The mass impalement of Triarchy forces after Daemon's victory over them is in large part a parallel of the public humiliation of Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden.  Visually, the Triarchy forces are even portrayed as "ragheads." Dragons in this universe present the contemporary equivalent of Shock and Awe, the power that makes the hegemons rule.

Does it follow that House of the Dragon is a mythogenic instrument of the New World Order?  If so, it is a subtle one in that it invests women with a tempting role in this clan/corporate universe.  The princesses and queens, especially through their quest for sexual and matriarchal assertion, certainly have skin in the game.  The same can be said for racial minorities, as the great houses seem to be equal opportunity power structures.  This may reflect the increasingly female and non-Caucasian face of the modern military forces, which are willing to incorporate diverse elements in order to fulfill their quotas, whether or not they actually reward these elements with the trappings of luxury and power.  For it does seem to me that in many ways House of the Dragon is a fantasy double for House of Cards (and perhaps Game of Thrones a clone of the Game of Global Domination in the Bond film Never Say Never Again).  Perhaps pseudo-Medieval fantasy functions as a kind of psycho-drama permitting public audiences to vicariously participate in a level of power play that is railed off from them in real life, that they sense must be happening somewhere, but can only viscerally access through a subscription spectacle.  

At any rate,  these ruminations are interesting enough to keep me tuning in for awhile, if for no other reason than to understand better how my fellow Earthlings may be "trained" or experimented upon in the still evolving New World Order.