Ah, but this is part of the point, friend! Stop for the next 20 minutes or so and truly appreciate that it WILL have to happen rather than thinking about how. Just briefly, then you can go about your way https://twitter.com/tofieldya/status/1287269072439140353
Think about the conditions that engender that possibility, that help it to grow and sustain itself. Escaping from the myth of the efficacy of punitivity is crucial to even thinking about a world where it's widely accepted that prisons should be abolished
Like, most of the uncomfortable things we have to eventually decide we want to get past are uncomfortable precisely because we're thinking about moving from here to there rather than the other way around
I know it doesn't make immediate logical sense, but a lot of times you do have to preemptively accept the existence of a future that you want before you can build it. That's what stuff like "imagine a world without prisons" actually means
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