even if you don't believe in prison abolition, the question must be asked, what purpose do they serve? if it is to rehabilitate, they've proven remarkably bad at their jobs. if it is to punish, they still do a pretty lousy job at that.
It seems increasingly true of Eggers that he writes his movies with the perspective that magic and demons and Satan and monsters are real and active but the Christian God hides his face.
it's so interesting to me that robert is the one to (correctly) dismiss the mythology of the iron throne, reminds me of him telling ned that jaime sitting on the throne after killing aerys meant nothing and he was probably just tired 😭😭